On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 10:35:28PM +0100, "S. Teletch?a" wrote: > Up to now, when one ask for a new kernel : urpmi kernel, the answer is > 'no kernel' found (or sometimes the -mm one). > > If you do the same for urpmi kernel-26 (or kernel-2.6, i don't > remember), then the full kernel list is displayed. > > This behaviour has been introduced, i presume, for the 2.4 to 2.6 switch. > > Cooker and fufure 2007 will probably not provide 2.4 (i think 2006 has > already dropped it), so i think it is now safe to have kernel as > provides from 2.6's kernel instead of kernel-2.6. > > This is a small thing but quite annoying (and quite hard to explain why > it is so in front of a client.
I think urpmi --auto-select should inform the user of installed packages with updates available if they're not installed for some (policy) reason. Then the user can decide what to do later. Since the kernel update doesn't remove the previous kernel anymore, there's very little risk to automatically installing a new kernel. Especially since the kernel-source *IS* updated automatically. After a new kernel is released, the kernel and kernel-source packages are different versions, which can confuse dkms (althought this may have been fixed???) /Simon
