Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1318 mails)

[Lars Müller <lmuelle@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 12:32:48PM +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On Friday, 2008-10-31 at 10:06 +0100, Lars Müller wrote:
>
> > For the zypper approach as it is in 11.1 and newer see the multiversion
> > setting in /etc/zypp/zypp.conf  Here you define which packages are
> > allowed to be installed multiple times.
> >
> > ##
> > ## Packages which are parallel installable with
> > ## diffent versions
> > ##
> > # multiversion = kernel-default,kernel-smp
>
> How many versions will that keep :-?

I don't know.

I expect this will keep all versions which includes the risk to run out
of disk space in /boot.

To me it would be a good default to have the currently running kernel -
which is know to work - and the new one installed and to remove any
other version.

Fictional output of "rpm -qf /boot/vmlinuz-* --last" after the last
available kernel update got installed:

kernel-default-base-2.6.27.1-2.1
kernel-pae-base-2.6.27.1-2.1
kernel-default-base-2.6.27.1-1.1
kernel-pae-base-2.6.27.1-1.1

It would be great to have to opportinuty to define the nunber of kernel
package per flavour to keep.

The open or a different question is how to display this state ot the
opportinities to the user at the grub screen.  Here the help of
usebility experts might be the most promising approach.

Lars
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Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ]
Samba Team
SUSE Linux, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany