Le lundi 27 septembre 2010 à 05:59 -0700, Arjan van de Ven a écrit :
> On 9/27/2010 5:57 AM, Frederic Crozat wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > as part of maintenance ongoing on MeeGo 1.0.x, we discovered each new
> > kernel release are installed on MeeGo in parallel to previously
> > installed kernel (in libzypp configuration, /etc/zypp/zypp.conf).
> >
> > While it is a good idea for a development PoV, on a "supported" end-user
> > device, it might not be such a good idea (for instance, if all disk
> > space become full due to old kernel packages installed). And moreover,
> > extlinux default configuration makes very tricky to change default
> > kernel at startup (I haven't been able to stop countdown using
> > keystroke, when it is set to 0 ).
> >
> > So, do you think this configuration should be changed for a "release"
> > version of MeeGo ? And do you see a problem if "vendors" are changing
> > this configuration to ensure kernel are "upgraded" and not installed
> > "side by side" when doing maintenance upgrade ?
> >
> 
> yum has the feature that it will leave the last 3 kernels installed...  
> (as well as the currently running one).

We had a similar way of doing things in urpmi.

> this is very important so that you have a fail safe; you can always boot 
> back into a known good kernel,
> this helps support a lot.

If people can choose another kernel at startup ;)

> I assumed that zypper has a similar feature to yum; if not that's a gap 
> that we need to address urgently with feature development.

Filled as http://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7507

-- 
Frederic Crozat <[email protected]>
Novell

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