On 02/02/2012 11:59 AM, Dave Howorth wrote:
Jiri Kosina wrote:
On Wed, 1 Feb 2012, Jean Delvare wrote:
If the policy on kernels is changed, there should also be a change in zypper so that at least 2 kernels are kept. That way the user can always fall back to the one they were using. This would certainly be a good idea, regardless of this discussion's outcome.
Just put/uncomment
multiversion = provides:multiversion(kernel)
in zypp.conf
Personally, I agree with both what Jean and Jiri wrote, and that is how I configure my systems. But I believe it is not the default because the majority school of thought says that it makes life too complicated for non-expert users, since they then have to learn how to and then forever more manually manage the ever-growing number of kernels that are filling their filespace. Dave this isn't anymore a trouble normally on 12.1+ with the help of purge_kernel which do a great work on that. Have a look at the script /etc/init.d/purge_kernel and in a fresh 12.1+ zypp.conf how to tell it what you want to keep.
So I think Jean may be closer to the requirement, that there should be an explicit change so that the options are 1 - 2 - many rather than just 1 - many, and the default should be 2. Or perhaps the option 1 just shouldn't exist.
Cheers, Dave
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