[Mageia-dev] kernel 3.0 is a big mistake in cauldron

JA Magallón jamagallon at ono.com
Sun Jul 17 22:52:40 CEST 2011


On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 07:37:26 -0700 (PDT), Radu-Cristian FOTESCU <beranger5ca at yahoo.ca> wrote:

> 
> >and both i586 and x86_64 kernels were tested on a i7-860 workstation and 
> >on a Acer TravelMate 5720  laptop before submitting to the buildsystem...
> 
> >There is no forcing...
> >the old kernel is still installed so you can use it if you need.
> 
> >
> >And if you dont like automatic kernel upgrades, uninstall kernel-*-latest
> 
> 
> I did so, but w/o kernel-*-latest I suppose I won't get any kernel update at all?!
> This is not what I intended...
> 
> 
> >its always good to know my work is appreciated...
> 
> 
> Your work in patching and packing and so on is one thing, and the policy of
> when the kernel goes and where it goes and what kind of kernel-*-latest 
> 

Two things:

- would you have so much problems if all these things that broke happened
  in 2.6.39.x ? Really, the 3.0.0 name is just cosmetics.
  There are not so big changes between kernel releases these days.
  Mageia has skipped 2.6.39, so you don't really know if it is 3.0 who
  hanged behavior or it was introduced in 2.6.39.x. If it was, would you
  say that 2.6.39 is an unstable kernel ? (the bunch of kernel developers
  did not). I repeat, from 2.6.39 to 3.0.0 there are no more important
  chages than from 2.6.38 to 2.6.39.

> metapackages exist is a different thing. I still believe that, even in cauldron,
> there should be 2 distinct kernel "branches", not a unique kernel-*-latest path.

- but in cauldron you have _infinte_ kernel branches, as no kernel is uninstalled
  when you get a new one. The all stay there. The kernel-latest meta package
  only assures you that you get the new one when it is released. If they
  dissapear in your box, that is a separate bug.
  Check you /etc/sysconfig/installkernel. There you can even say that the
  new kernel is installed but not set as default (NOLINK).


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