Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kernel (79 mails)

[Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx>]

Dave Plater napsal(a):
> When I used zypper up kernel-desktop* as I usually do to update the
> three kernel packages it offered me a choice of either kernel-desktop or
> kernel-desktop-base as did yast when I selected update all in this list
> if a newer version is available. I suppose I should file a bug that the
> installation system should check for needed drivers that aren't in the
> base package. On the other hand, if somebody updates from 11.1 will
> zypper dup handle it properly?

When I added the Obsoletes:, I tested that a 'zypper dup' gets it right
(i.e. upgrades kernel-$flavor and deletes kernel-$flavor-base, I think
it also got it right if there was only kernel-$flavor-base originally).
This has to work and I hope it hasn't changed since then. Having 'zypper
up kernel-desktop*' do the same right thing would be also nice, but it's
not what users upgrading from 11.1 to 11.2 will be doing. I think the
difference is that is that zypper expands 'up kernel-desktop*' to 'up
kernel-desktop kernel-desktop-base', which can't be resolved (you want
to update kernel-desktop, which obsoletes kernel-desktop-base, which you
want to update at the same time). Of course, if you come up with a
Obsoletes: line that does the right thing in all possible scenarios,
then I'm all for it, but currently I'm happy that it at least works with
'zypper dup'.

Michal
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