On Thursday, 2 October 2008 9:59:11 Dave Plater wrote:
Hi, I'm just going through the beta 2 update packages in the new factory and I see yast wants to install three kernel packages :- kernel-pae - Kernel with PAE Support, kernel-pae-base - Kernel with PAE Support - base modules and kernel-pae-extra - Kernel with PAE Support - extra modules.
Yes, that's correct.
Where can I find information on what has happened to the kernel in opensuse?
Well, what you are saying above is mostly the information that it takes I guess. In the changelog there is this entry: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Sat Sep 27 19:25:06 CEST 2008 - agruen@suse.de - Split the binary kernel packages into three parts: + kernel-$flavor-base: very reduced hardware support, intended to be used in virtual machine images + kernel-$flavor: extends the base package; contains all kernel modules we can support + kernel-$flavor-extra: all other kernel modules which may be useful, but which we cannot support. This change was done in a way so that users will end up with the expected result when using the "old" package names, and package dependencies will take care of the rest. There are still a few issues to work out with package dependencies and KMPs which I am working on right now (at the moment, KMPs will depend solely on kernel-$flavor-base which is incorrect); this will be fixed shortly. Thanks, Andreas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@opensuse.org