Philippe Vogel wrote:
suse@rio.vg wrote:
Quoting Mathias Homann
: Am Mittwoch, 25. August 2004 17:39 schrieb Mike Rose:
When using: rpm -ivh kernel-whatever.rpm
but obviously thats not the way YOU installs a kernel update.
I believe the difference lies in:
rpm -ivh kernel-foo.i586.rpm
and
rpm -Uvh kernel-foo.i586.rpm
YaST/YOU/fou4s all use the "upgrade" path. The "install" path moves the old kernel to "previous", unless I'm mistaken.
Perhaps this is a perfect thing for the SuSE guys to change in YaST/YOU: Make kernel upgrade use the "install" type path, or perhaps find some way to give the option? Maybe just make a note about it in the install patch messages to give the user an informed option to quit out of YOU and type it in manually?
The "install" path is great for the vast majority of systems today, but can cause problems on smaller systems, as our wonderful linux kernel weighs in at nearly 65 megabytes, and the corresponding sources at 243mb. My laptop wouldn't like to keep too many copies of that size lying about...
I had same things as well. Even once I had to rebuild rpm database because of a corrupted rpm-database file during a broken update via YOU.
Since I don't read any mails from Roman Drathmüller there lays the problem. While he mentained the list there where some smaller problems but not this dau looking updatepolicy since the last months.
If you not try to fix this I will swith to some better mentained distributions (gentoo or debian which have longer uptimes than SuSE ever had). Afaik a lot more investigation is needed before giving an update to the public that doesn't seem work at all.
What I don't do the last times is to use automated YOU instead I chose the updates I want to install - especially on kernel and other important updates.
With this policy you make yourself a bad name in the community and don't lose it until you think over to change this bad policy. Even for novell it can't be a good thing to lose customers (even if they think only corporate customers are the right customers, but with linux you can't think like this because it is a community driven OS!).
Best reguards
Philippe
P.S.: Until this issues aren't fixed I a) don't use You or b) use different self compiled software which in fact works better and more reliable (look at gentoo!).