My conclusion would be that users would be well-advised to skip these updates.
your conclusion is wrong
On 18 July 2016 at 12:16, Martin Wilck
On Mon, 2016-07-18 at 10:18 +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
On Mon, Jul 18, Martin Wilck wrote:
Well, we had regressions caused by updated compiler. But then you will need to change kernel version scheme to include build number. Until this is done you cannot install two builds in parallel anyway. The question that comes to my mind - if it can cause no harm, what
On Mon, 2016-07-18 at 10:37 +0300, Andrei Borzenkov wrote: possible good it can do? In other words, why is this "build-number- only" update pushed to repos at all?
Because pkgs which make use of binary signing are not handled by build-compare. As a result pkgs like kernel, xen and kmps get rebuilt and republished all the time.
Well then, summarizing: - build number changes can't be avoided, - regressions caused by build number increases are very unlikely but can't be excluded, - kernels that differ only by build number can't be installed in parallel / multiversion(kernel) isn't functional => regression might result in unbootable system, - the end-user benefit of updating to a kernel with just increased build number is unclear to me.
My conclusion would be that users would be well-advised to skip these updates.
Martin
Olaf
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