On 18 July 2011 12:18, Lars Müller wrote:

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 12:03:10PM +0100, Rob OpenSuSE wrote:

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On 14 July 2011 15:47, Michal Marek wrote:

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Dne 14.7.2011 16:18, Greg Freemyer napsal(a):

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On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Michal Marek wrote:

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Dne 13.7.2011 10:16, Marcus Meissner napsal(a):

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There now is work on zypp to allow automatic deinstallation of older kernels when this option is enabled as far as I know.

That looks fantastic.  I have about 10 kernels now because I don't get around to deleting them as often as I should.

Once you feel good with this, can we get in tumbleweed?

If enough people confirm me that it works, I will forward it to tumbleweed.

This is just too good not to be exploited in 12.1, fixes a very long standing annoyance since (7.1?) when Online Kernel update was introduced, IMO this ought to be the distro default.  Thanks for the Lizard page to documenting it.

So I've put in a feature request - "Preserve Running Kernel On Kernel Update by Default" https://features.opensuse.org/312647 Hopefully there'll be support for it, so this edit to /etc/zypp/zypp.conf becomes uncessary on almost every install.

Filing the 10642367 feature request on this doesn't push the issue further forward.  We had discussions regarding how to handle kernel updates in a save and sane way several times before.

Cf. http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2010-08/msg01313.html

I love the wording "feature cemetery" more and more.

The retention of the latest & running kernel, is in 12.1 Factory already, to those using "multiversion kernel" setting. So this is feasible and the time to discuss such change, is before the release freezes ie now, not a "wouldn't it be nice" at RC1. To make updates safer for all, commenting in the "multiversion" line is all that's required. How will that actually happen without a Feature Change request? Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@opensuse.org