Em Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:53:33 +0100 Fabrice FACORAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu:
| Le mardi 13 février 2007, Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino a écrit : | > Em Mon, 12 Feb 2007 20:56:43 +0100 | > | > Fabrice FACORAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: | > | Le lundi 12 février 2007, Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino a écrit : | | > | cooker work ... yes and no, because this will have incidence on the | > | stable release. We can't afford another release with a so big mess | > | concerning kernel updates. | > | > Big mess? Which one? Could you explain? | > | > If you really care for security it's *your* job to know how the system | > you're using works, and currently Mandriva does not update kernels | > automatically. That's quite well-know. And it's also *your* job to read | > our security announcements. | | I'm not talking about security. | Sorry if my words were rude, it wasn't my intention. You wasn't rude, you've just said something I completely disagree. :) | The problem rely when users upgrade their kernel and are using dkms. | Kernel-source is not updated at the same time the user is updating the | kernel. It need extra works. | we can't even tell a user to do the following to ensure that he had installed | the kernel source for the running kernel when playing with dkms ( i.e when | installing nvidia/ati/centrino/madwifi/... drivers ) : urpmi | kernel-source-stripped-`uname -r` | | It won't work as the package have .Xmdv and uname give -Xmdv There's a ticket that describe the whole thing, with tons of opnions. No need to discuss it again. -- Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
