On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 11:45:46AM -0400, Joe Salmeri wrote:

On 9/12/23 11:34, Michal Suchánek wrote:

There are additional tools that you can use - add zypper lock to not
install the broken version, disable the purge-kernels service to keep
all kernels until your disk fills with them.

Thanks

Michal

Thanks for that info, however, I might not become aware that an issue exists until AFTER then newer kernel is installed and I don't think locking kernel-default would
be a good idea.   I also would not want to add more manual effort to cleanup older kernels that are no longer needed.

The default configuration keeps a couple of earlier kernels, however.
Then even after the new kernel has been installed you can go back to the
previous one.

Right but that does not address the issue where all the installed kernel versions are from the same X.Y version, which is why I will occasionally add a specific kernel to zypp.conf to make sure that it is kept.

None of those solutions or even my manually modifying /etc/zypp/zypp.conf can provide the latest LTS kernel in TW because of what I explained in my earlier reply where a LTS kernel
may have newer fixes than the last LTS kernel version seen in TW because TW moved to a newer kernel version.

It's not like I have had lots of kernel issues, but having the latest LTS kernel would be a quick and easy way to verify whether a problem is kernel related or not and having the
kernel-lts package would make it so that if a user installed that package they would not have to worry about it being purged and it would also be the latest version of the LTS kernel
that is available.

There is the Tumbleweed archive with historical kernels which you can
install to test if the problem is caused by the kernel long after it has
been removed from Tumbleweed if you really need to.

Are you talking about the historical builds that are used by tumbleweed-cli located here

    https://download.opensuse.org/history/

That is only the last 20 published TW builds so it sounds like you are talking about some other TW archive of historical kernels.

Can you please share the URL where that is located ?   Thank You!

-- 
Regards,

Joe