Kenneth Schneider wrote:
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 18:44 -0500, Rajko M. wrote:
On Tuesday 18 September 2007 13:40, Kenneth Schneider wrote:
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 19:27 +0200, Hans-Peter Holler wrote:
leads to panic on boot see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=326099
Hans-Peter Yet one more reason to keep the old kernel around, especially when using factory. Any Novell people have a _valid_ reason not to keep the most recent kernel when upgrading? The whole story is what we select: update or installation. Update to new version will remove old one, installation of new version will retain the old one.
Though, YaST will always update. There is no way to select installation instead of update, which is safe bet with new users, and old ones will find the way around with rpm.
I would agree with that if it were the GM release _not_ the alpha/beta releases which people are trying to test. We should have a way to keep the old kernel _even in an upgrade_ when testing and as you pointed out YaST will always update. I can imagine how many people got stung by this one. Fortunately for me I use my laptop for testing and I only lost a couple of hours reverting back to the install kernel.
I totally agree that an older kernel should be kept. I'd even say that it could be scripted to keep the last 'n' ones. Default to say 3. -- Quis custodiet ipsos custodes “To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” [Theodore Roosevelt] 1918 Adolph & Sharon Weidanz SuSE 10.1 '78 43' Endeavour Ketch Folding@Home Team 45 S/V Time To Paws --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org