thanks so much for taking the time to reply, I get the concepts.
Regards
Richard
On Monday 28 May 2007 21:47, Roman Kyrylych wrote:
> 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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