On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Lars Müller <lmuelle@suse.de> wrote:
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 12:32:48PM +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Friday, 2008-10-31 at 10:06 +0100, Lars Müller wrote:
For the zypper approach as it is in 11.1 and newer see the multiversion setting in /etc/zypp/zypp.conf Here you define which packages are allowed to be installed multiple times.
## ## Packages which are parallel installable with ## diffent versions ## # multiversion = kernel-default,kernel-smp
How many versions will that keep :-?
I don't know.
I expect this will keep all versions which includes the risk to run out of disk space in /boot.
I have a ubuntu machine running a rather oldish version (dapper I think) where the user dutifully applies all updates as the ubuntu sofware updater prompts him to do. Lately I started seeing old vmlinuz file sets showing up in /root. Checking, I found four sets in /boot and older ones being moved to /root. /boot was full (or nearly so). It appears that ubuntu/debian simply auto-cleans /boot of the oldest image in order to make room for the newest. Since there were at least 3 sets remaining in /boot, this seems like a good approach to avoid an overly full /boot (as long as you had the option of turning it off or locking some old failsafe kernel.) -- ----------JSA--------- Someone stole my tag line, so now I have this rental. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org