On 2016-07-16 20:44, Felix Miata wrote:
Carlos E. R. composed on 2016-07-16 20:22 (UTC+0200):
Yamaban wrote:
One of the cases to be handled is "/boot" on its own partition. If this partition is small, an additional kernel coud overfill it, thus the removal of the old kernel befor installing the new kernel makes sense, as long as the kernel to be removed is not the running kernel.
If multiversion is enabled, the old one can never be removed. It is a
Never say never or always. I just did what I interpret your statement to mean six hours ago, and not having anything to do with this thread. WRT https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2016-07/msg00283.html I installed TW's kernel in 42.1 as a troubleshooting step, booted it, then removed it, while running it, without encountering any evidence one way or another WRT your assertion "can never be removed". I suspect package management in TW has not changed materially in this regard since 42.1 release.
Of course that you can shoot your own foot if you wish. Nothing impedes it. Maybe I should have used a different verb than "can". Andrei has explained why it happens: different build of the same version. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)