2007/5/28, Richard Terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I wonder if someone could clarify the question of kernel ugrades during a
> Pacman -Syu.
>
> If I'm running on a particular kernel, and have installed things like ati
> drivers, or virtual machine (eg virtual box/parallels), does upgrading the
> kernel render these things inoperable.
>
Short answer: yes.
> Put another way, what programs on your machine, mean that you shouldn't
> upgrade the kernel, and if so, is re-installing the original program the only
> way out of the situation.
>
> Also are there other packages one should put in IgnorePkg as a general rule?
I wouldn't recomment putting packages in IgnorePkg _as_a_general_rule_
unless you have solid reason for this.
If sometimes you need to skip some upgrade you can do -Syu --ignore
pkgA --ignore pkgB
>
> Hope this is not too ambiguous.
>
> To anyone gracious enough to reply, could you generalise the concepts of this
> as well, as I'm not that technical.
>
Any package that depends on kernel needs to be upgraded to the version
that is built with that particular kernel version support.
Note that this is needed only for major kernel version change (i.e.
2.6.21.x -> 2.6.22).
Usually updated versions of such packages are released shortly after
kernel upgrade. New major kernel versions are always put into Testing
repo for some period, and all Current/Extra packages that depends on
kernel are rebuilt at that time in Testing too.
When testing period ends they are moving to Current/Extra
simultaneously, so usually there are no problems with kernel upgrade.
However, packages in Community are updated for new kernel only after
it hits Current, so there is short period of time when those software
does not work.
You can rebuild such packages by yourself, or wait a short period of time.
I don't know about parrallels, but to get virtualbox running with new
kernel you need to rebuild virtualbox-modules package, or wait until
maintainer will do this.
For VMware Workstation/Server/Player you need to rebuild correspondent
vmware-{workstation,server,player}-modules package and run
./vmware-config.pl again.
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Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
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