Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3031 mails)

[Felix Miata <mrmazda@xxxxxx>]

On 2008/02/08 12:20 (GMT+0100) Carlos E. R. apparently typed:

> Well, but by that method the old kernel is not listed by rpm. Instead, you 
> can download the kernel update manually and install it manually: this way 
> you can have both kernels listed.

> It would be a nice feature if Yast could do this trick with vital rpms.

+2

> What yast does is an update of the kernel rpm, meaning that the old one is 
> uninstalled and the new one installed.

It's worse than that. You can rpm -ivh the new kernel to have both old and
new before doing other updates, and yast will dutifully reinstall the kernel
you just installed as well as removing the old one you kept on purpose. So,
at least test the new kernel first before letting yast have its way, to be
sure the only kernel yast leaves you with actually works. Right now with one
of my systems the factory kernels are incompatible with an X session lasting
more than a few seconds. Any more than that, and the system is instantly put
into unrecoverable sleep mode.
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