On Thu, 13 May 2010, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > The only affect I see this will have is that an installed linux-image meta > package will be updated. That might get a new kernel installed or not.
If the minimal version is carefully chosen, it will ensure a new kernel is installed. That's the standard Debian way to have newer kernel auto-installed and upgraded so we should be able to rely on it for upgrades. > But how does that change anything for the system? It does not mean the > new kernel will be used at all. It does not mean older kernel images > will be removed. It does not change the kernel the system is currently > running. It in no way means udev will actually work. Newer kernels are used by default in grub, sure the user can make a bad choice but we can't prevent everything. The current hack was no better in that regard. It just ensured that a newer kernel was being installed, it had no way to ensure that a good kernel is going to be used on next boot. We could improve this further by having grub only display working kernels. Packages could communicate a minimal kernel version to grub, and grub could use that information in update-grub. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Like what I do? Sponsor me: http://ouaza.com/wp/2010/01/05/5-years-of-freexian/ My Debian goals: http://ouaza.com/wp/2010/01/09/debian-related-goals-for-2010/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
