Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (341 mails)

[Eberhard Moenkeberg <emoenke@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Peter Poeml wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 04:31:18PM +0100, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:

> > > > I can live with it, but it is nasty, and against YaST's philosophy.
> > > >
> > > > If YOU is offering a kernel update, it brings a popup window.
> > > > I then do
> > > >
> > > >   cd /lib/modules
> > > >   mkdir x
> > > >   cp -al `uname -r` x/
> > > >   cd /boot
> > > >   mkdir x
> > > >   cp -a *`uname -r`* x/
> > > >   cd /usr/src
> > > >   cp -al linux-`uname -r`* x/
> > > >
> > > > then ack the popup, and after YOU has finished, I copy the saves back 
> > > > to 
> > > > ..
> > > >
> > > > This way, my old, but running kernel is still valid - I can delay the 
> > > > reboot as long as I like and enter an additional, "safe" boot target 
> > > > into 
> > > > the grub or lilo setup.
> > > >
> > > > YaST is still wasting /etc/lilo.conf and /boot/grub/menue.lst regularly 
> > > > in 
> > > > this case, but that is a different point if you need something to argue 
> > > > against the "quality" which I will not reflect upon here.
> > >
> > > rpm -e --justdb kernel-$version 
> > > should achieve the same; it is what I used until I settled for yum.
> >
> > Splendid idea. Thanks.
>
> --noscripts can be useful, as well. Otherwise the bootloader config
> might be touched, which poses a risk in itself. But the config needs to
> be closely watched anyway, if a kernel is going to be updated. (I forgot
> to mention it before.)

Oh yes, both /etc/lilo.conf and /boot/grub/menue.conf get mangled unusable 
currently if you have symlinks like "vmlinuz.old" and "vmlinuz.ori" for 
saved older kernels...

I had entered https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=410431
against it, but contrary to the last comment from 2008-09-19 no solution 
yet.

> (And I routinely find myself deinstalling the suspend package; because
> it has a habit of recreating *all* initrds in its postinstall script,
> which I'm not fond of.)

Bugzilla ID?


... and the rpm -e --just-db" command should read in full:

  rpm -e --justdb --noscripts kernel-source kernel-<flavour>

where <flavour> is default, xen, smp, bigsmp and so on.


Viele Grüße
Eberhard Mönkeberg (emoenke@xxxxxxx, em@xxxxxxx)

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