Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kernel (36 mails)

[Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@xxxxxxx>]

On Thursday, 2 October 2008 9:59:11 Dave Plater wrote:
> Hi, I'm just going through the beta 2 update packages in the new factory
> and I see yast wants to install three kernel packages :-
> kernel-pae - Kernel with PAE Support, kernel-pae-base - Kernel with PAE
> Support - base modules and kernel-pae-extra - Kernel with PAE Support -
> extra modules.

Yes, that's correct.

> Where can I find information on what has happened to the kernel in
> opensuse?

Well, what you are saying above is mostly the information that it takes I 
guess. In the changelog there is this entry:

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Sat Sep 27 19:25:06 CEST 2008 - agruen@xxxxxxx

- Split the binary kernel packages into three parts:
  + kernel-$flavor-base: very reduced hardware support, intended
                         to be used in virtual machine images
  + kernel-$flavor: extends the base package; contains all kernel
                    modules we can support
  + kernel-$flavor-extra: all other kernel modules which may be
                          useful, but which we cannot support.


This change was done in a way so that users will end up with the expected 
result when using the "old" package names, and package dependencies will take 
care of the rest.

There are still a few issues to work out with package dependencies and KMPs 
which I am working on right now (at the moment, KMPs will depend solely on 
kernel-$flavor-base which is incorrect); this will be fixed shortly.

Thanks,
Andreas
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