On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 05:10, Todd Lyons wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Teletch�a St�phane wanted us to know: > > >What is the point ? kernel-source is installed directly but not kernel > >itself, i think this is not consistent ! > > Carryover from old days when "upgrade" of the kernel could potentially > screw up your system. It was not newbie friendly, so it was removed. > The kernel install scripts are much better now and urpmi is much more > intelligent about upgrade versus install, but nobody has made the call > to change it back to the old way. It's been this way for a couple of > years now, but then again, when was that ever a reason to not consider a > change...
Since the kernel installation doesn't add an entry for the old kernel by default, and we have had in the last month two Cooker kernels which failed to boot, I'm thinking the time is not yet right. :) -- adamw
