Something interesting just came up in the IRC channel. I noticed that kernel packages are currently named as follows:
kernel-W.X.Y.Zmdk (e.g. kernel-2.4.19.3mdk) but kernel-source packages are named: kernel-source-W.X.Y-Zmdk (e.g. kernel-source-2.4.19-3mdk) the practical upshot of this is that when you do urpmi --auto-select after a new kernel release, kernel-source will be automatically updated to the new kernel version, but your kernel itself won't be. You have to urpmi the new kernel manually. Surely this is bad? It leaves you with a source tree and an actual kernel which don't match, which could mess some things up (the nvidia drivers spring to mind as an example.) Is there a reason for this? -- adamw
