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...