Felix Miata schrieb:
Prior to updating from about beta2 to current factory tree today, I downloaded and installed the 2.6.18.2-33-default kernel with rpm -ivh so that the previous 2.6.18.2-5 kernel would remain installed. I forgot to reboot prior to running System Update, which proceeded to install 2.6.18.2-33 again, and remove 2.6.18.2-5. :-(
Don't take this as something evil, but I have wondered since quite some time what the purpose of these status report mails to the opensuse-factory list is. If you think that any of the involved software components - be it YaST, the kernel package, the bootloader config scripts - misbehaves, file a bug. That's what Bugzilla is for. If you need help setting up your system for a particular purpose, try to state as clearly as possible what you're trying to achieve. I read the text three times now and it's still not entirely clear to me what this is all about: - If you think that a part of the system misbehaves, file a bug including what has to change: YaST, the kernel, perl-bootloader, something else... And describe the difference between the actual and the desired behaviour in such a way that it's understandable without any knowledge beyond your report. - If you just want to update your system to something that resembles what will be openSUSE 10.2 GM, forget about factory now. There's nothing interesting to see in factory right now. - If you want to have a special setup, try to find out if it's possible at all. Last time I checked, the handling of multiple equally named kernel packages in YaST was just a vision. Don't know if something changed, but right now I'd say YaST doesn't support that. In addition, you might want to check whether the old kernel really disappeared or whether it's just the bootloader entry that was missing. Note that during a not quite correctly done system upgrade, the _old_ version of YaST and its libaries are running. This means that you might suffer from bugs that have been fixed long ago. perl-Bootloader and yast2-bootloader had lots of them. Beta2 is very old. That's why the recommended upgrade way is booting from the installation media and choosing the system upgrade option from there. Doing a system upgrade within the running system means that you'll see and report old, known and already fixed bugs. Andreas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org