Feature changed by: Michal Marek (michal-m) Feature #307154, revision 5 Title: merge kernel-$flavor-base back to kernel-$flavor - openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed + openSUSE-11.2: New Priority Requester: Important - openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed + openSUSE-11.3: New Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Michal Marek (michal-m) Description: The split of the kernel package (feature 303631) has a number of annoying side effects, such as 1) reduced installation time, 2) lots of error messages printed by mkinitrd when the -base package is installed and 3) a failure (e.g. network down) during installation of kernel-$flavor will result in a non-bootable system. The benefit of the -extra subpackage is that unsupported modules can be excluded from SLES media, which is good, but the -base package seems to cause more harm than good (it was intended for PV guest installs, but it's unclear whether it's actually used that way). References: Bug 491959 - installation of kernel-default-base produces lot of FATAL errors: https://bugzilla.novell.com/491959 Bug 513841 - include vfat in kernel-*-base: https://bugzilla.novell.com/513841 Discussion: #1: Michal Marek (michal-m) (2009-08-05 13:21:09) It turns out that we can eat the cake AND have it, namely that rpmbuild allows subpackages to overlap. So we can have kernel-$flavor-base for virtual guests and kernel-$flavor as a superset of -base. The only drawback would be a few duplicated megabytes on mirrors. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307154