kernel update warning

max maximilianbianco at gmail.com
Mon Feb 25 03:19:24 UTC 2008


Kam Leo wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 2:21 PM, John Summerfield
> <debian at herakles.homelinux.org> wrote:
>> Kam Leo wrote:
>>  > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
>>  >> On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 18:27:31 +0100,
>>  >>   Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  >>  > Hi,
>>  >>  > I just saw that opensuse 10.3 has an warning when there is a kernel update.
>>  >>  > Look how they handle this:
>>  >>  > http://www.uploadgeek.com/uploads456/0/new-kernel.png
>>  >>  >
>>  >>  > What do you think would this also be nice if Fedora had something like
>>  >>  > this or not?
>>  >>
>>  >>  Fedora has an update alert feature. I don't know if it can filter what
>>  >>  it checks to be a subset of what you have installed though.
>>  >
>>  > OpenSUSE also has an update alert feature. The reboot message is
>>  > displayed when the kernel is updated. The difference between openSUSE
>>  > and Fedora is that only one version of the kernel is kept on the
>>  > system.
>>  >
>>  Which retains only one version of the kernel?
> 
> Default for openSUSE is to keep only one kernel package. 

Are you sure about that?

Max




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