Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (95 mails)

[Marcus Meissner <meissner@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 01:44:53PM +0700, Michel Salim wrote:
> It seems that YaST and zypper would replace the currently-installed
> kernel with a new one whenever an update is available.
> 
> While I've had no problems with the updates I've tried so far
> (2.6.18.8-0.3 and -0.5), I could see this becoming a potential
> problem, if users were to install a broken kernel.
> 
> In some other distributions (e.g. Fedora, and I think Debian and
> Ubuntu as well) the currently-booting kernel is retained as well; in
> that way the user is never left with an unbootable kernel (and,
> presumably, one that gives them network connectivity as well).
> 
> I've not tried any recent Factory build, so this point might be moot,
> in case, apologies for the redundant query.

We try not release broken kernels ;)

The "Upgrade" is the current policy, mostly because just installing
stuff will increase diskusage and likely break more systems :(

You can install manually multiple kernels using "rpm -i" just fine.

Ciao, Marcus
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