Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (282 mails)

[Marcus Meissner <meissner@xxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 03:18:17PM +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On Friday, 2010-10-08 at 23:54 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
>
> > On 2010/10/09 03:02 (GMT+0200) Carlos E. R. composed:
>
> > > > > > multiversion = provides:multiversion(kernel)
> >
> > > > > This line, AFAIK, doesn't work. You have to list every kernel
> > > > > related package name, separated by commas.
> >
> > > > The only difference between that line and the one provided in the rpm 
> > > > package
> > > > that put zypp.conf there originally is I removed the # from the start of
> > > > line. The line is there originally to provide an example of something that
> > > > works, suggesting that uncommenting it will cause the originally installed
> > > > kernel to remain available when a newer one gets installed.
> >
> > > I know, but it doesn't work....
> > > Aparently, they don't "do this".
> >
> > For me it does work on approximately 30 11.2, 11.3 & Factory partitions, and
> > doesn't work on zero.
>
> For me, it doesn't work on 3/3 11.2 tested. Yast/You doesn't see it and 
> simply updates one kernel with the newer kernel. The radio buttons should 
> be replaced with click boxes, but that doesn't happen unless I list all 
> kernel packages one by one instead of the documented "provides:..." line 
> above. And several posts in the forum concur with this.
>
>
> cer@Telcontar:~> rpm -q kernel-desktop
> kernel-desktop-2.6.31.12-0.2.1.x86_64
> kernel-desktop-2.6.31.14-0.1.1.x86_64
>
> cer@Telcontar:~> rpm -q --provides kernel-desktop | grep -i multiversion
> cer@Telcontar:~>
>
> No multiversion provided. See?

This is new with 11.3.

In 11.2 you need to adjust /etc/zypp//zypp.conf to have:

multiversion = kernel-desktop,kernel-desktop-extra

or similar.

Ciao, Marcus
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