Le Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:21:25 +0200,
Miklos Vajna <[email protected]> a écrit :

> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 11:25:46AM +0200, bouleetbil 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > When I update a box the "minimum" for me it's my system should start.
> > 
> > Result frugalware don't boot => kernel panic.
> > I think we should patch menu.lst for add the initrd.
> 
> Right, grubconfig does this. Do you have any better idea than the news
> entry on the website? 
Perhaps add to post-install "WARNING WARNING you should update menu.lst ...". 
I'me pretty sure that users will don't read the news.
And if it's not translate you don't see the news :)

>Adding the initrd to the menu.lst automatically is
> too problematic, that's why the decision was made not to touch menu.lst
> from a post_upgrade scriptlet.
why problematic to update frugalware entry with sed into menu.lst ?

> 
> > I think we would bump, add some features too quickly and it's not
> > enought tested. The result (I talk for me and probably some users)
> > When I update my system I say what will be break with this update and
> > It's not normal. (When I've choose to use frugalware it's also for the
> > stability)
> 
> I think your current problem is about a scriptlet did not touch
> automatically a config file - while usually we consider that a feature.
Ok
> So in this particular case I don't think it's about too less testing.
Perhpas but I'm not sure. For me it missing something but I don't know what.

> Note that I actively try to control how much breakage do we have during
> upgrades for each release - i.e. it was intentional that I did not want
> dracut for 1.5, when we already caused enough problems for upgraders
> with systemd.
I know and I'm agree with that
> 
> > Before bump add some features we should fix missing packages into 
> > testsuite, ruby bump is not finish since some months some ruby pkg are 
> > broken as deprecated rubygems...
> 
> We already recommend doing such bumps in a WIP repo if it can't be
> finished within a workday. So as long as we create a WIP repo for such
> upgrades, it won't be a problem.
> 
> To sum up: I understand your frustration, but I think that's the best we
> could do right now. Users not interested in testing should use stable,
> where we always publish an upgrade guide, that contains instructions on
> how to avoid a kernel panic on reboot.
> 
> BTW, if you read the news entry, I hope current will be usable for you
> again. :)
In french I don't have this entry :D

And current work here I was just irritate after updated a box for have a kernel 
panic.

> Thanks.

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