Another funny update?

[Marcel Rieux]

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 19:13:59 -0400,
>  Marcel Rieux <m.z.rieux at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > So, the oldest kmod-nvidia is removed with the oldest kernel and it will
> > still be possible to boot with the present kernel. .. but not with the
> new
> > kernel because the new kmod-nvidia is not installed. Which means newbies
> > will be completely dumbfounded as to why their system suddenly doesn't
> boot
> > after an update.
> >
> > Is this done on purpose in order to chase new users away? Is somebody
> > working for Ubuntu here?
>
> For this issue you are really complaining to the wrong people. kmod-nvidia
> is from their repository. If lack of an updated kmod-nvidia update needs
> to block a kernel update, it needs to be handled in that repo.
>

Are you really sure that the maintainers of a repository that doesn't belong
to Fedora could stop a Fedora kernel upgrade?
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