On 2017-07-20 04:15, Basil Chupin wrote:
On 19/07/17 21:39, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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Earlier today I booted into Leap 42.3 and then did the "zypper three-step dance" routine -- the very first thing I do when I first switch on the computer. To my surprise 'zypper patch' came up with wanting to install kernel 4.4.76 when the damn thing is not showing in Yast as I had labouriously deleted the damn thing! I also looked in /boot and found that both '@initrd' and '@vmlinuz' were _still_ symlinked to kernel 4.4.76 -- but grub.cfg showed that initrd had kernel 4.12.2 to use.
Dependency by another package.
To cut a long story short: the person-in-the-woodpile was a file which appeared in Leap 42.3 (but is not in Leap 42.2) and is the cause of this hassle of zypper/Yast wanting to re-install kernel 4.4.76. The file is drm-kmp-default.
Ahhhh!
When you try and install kernel 4.12.x using Yast and deleting kernel 4.4.x, you will get a dependency error(s) and one of them will contain a reference to drm-kmp-default. Select to DELETE this file and this will stop 4.4.x from being re-installed.
As I said, this applies only Leap 42.3 and does NOT apply to Leap 42.2.
Well, that rpm is quite important. I'm not sure of the consequences. There was some talk about it and nvidia, but at this time of the night (5 AM) I don't remember what and I'm not going to look it up ;-) And then, I could be totally mistaken. Somebody knows? Me, goes to bed. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)