yum wants to remove my kernels, why?

[Timothy Murphy]

On Sunday 22 January 2006 16:55, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> >>>but in my view the default should be to keep the current, working kernel
> >>>as the default (as I believe it used to be).

> >I still think it is a bad idea to install the new kernel automatically.
> >The worst thing that can happen for a newbie
> >is that he turns on his laptop and it doesn't work

> New kernels should never result in major regressions. We need to work on
> that instead of providing workarounds. What users can do is help
> checking updates-testing repository and making sure that it works. More
> feedback would definitely help increase the robustness of updates.

I'm very happy with yum - in fact I think it is the best thing about Fedora -
but aren't you being excessively idealistic
in thinking that any kernel update will work on every machine running Fedora?

As for feedback, I've found it very difficult to report on problems I've had,
and when I have managed to do this
there has never been any useful response.
I think bugzilla should be made simpler to use
if more feedback is desired.

By contrast, I've always had a good response
when writing to this list.



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