Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (505 mails)

[Lars Müller <lmuelle@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 12:03:10PM +0100, Rob OpenSuSE wrote:
> On 14 July 2011 15:47, Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Dne 14.7.2011 16:18, Greg Freemyer napsal(a):
> > > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > Dne 13.7.2011 10:16, Marcus Meissner napsal(a):
> > > > > There now is work on zypp to allow automatic deinstallation of older 
> > > > > kernels
> > > > > when this option is enabled as far as I know.
> > > That looks fantastic.  I have about 10 kernels now because I don't get
> > > around to deleting them as often as I should.
> > >
> > > Once you feel good with this, can we get in tumbleweed?
> >
> > If enough people confirm me that it works, I will forward it to tumbleweed.
>
> This is just too good not to be exploited in 12.1, fixes a very long
> standing annoyance since (7.1?) when Online Kernel update was
> introduced, IMO this ought to be the distro default.  Thanks for the
> Lizard page to documenting it.
>
> So I've put in a feature request - "Preserve Running Kernel On Kernel
> Update by Default" https://features.opensuse.org/312647
> Hopefully there'll be support for it, so this edit to
> /etc/zypp/zypp.conf becomes uncessary on almost every install.

Filing the 10642367 feature request on this doesn't push the issue
further forward.  We had discussions regarding how to handle kernel
updates in a save and sane way several times before.

Cf. http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2010-08/msg01313.html

I love the wording "feature cemetery" more and more.

BTW Even Microsoft handles boot issues more flexible.  I'm very sorry
that I have to spread the wound and put some salt on top of it. :/

Lars
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Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ]
Samba Team
SUSE Linux, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany