Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Kernel v3.1.6-1.2 (cooker only)
Jim Beard <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.mandrake.cooker.devel |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 01/05/2012 10:37 AM, Zé wrote: > 2012/1/5 Franck Bui<[email protected]>: >> Alexander Kazancev<[email protected]> writes: >> >> [...] >> >>> >>> Is kernel-generic has some features and improverments, like you >>> kernel-desktop and what reason using PAE and HIGHMEM64G for 32-bit >>> kernel? >> >> Because kernel-desktop targets modern HW, not 10 year old ones. So >> people using a kernel desktop on contemporary 32-bits machines (the very >> common case) can use more than 4Go and the no-exec bit. >> >>> >>> Now we have a ugly situation on 2011, like user install initial >>> mandriva ISO with 2.6.38 kernel (it's no PAE in desktop version) and >> >> Hmm... I thought that old desktop kernel was targeting the i686 >> micro-architecture with PAE enabled but that was mistake. For some >> reasons it has been decided to not use PAE even if the i686 has the >> support... >> >> Well, even if it's not nice, if the number of users is very low (and I >> suspect it is) then we could simply ask them to use install the >> kernel-generic package manually ? > > Thats a very bad suggestion, this should be a priority to fix.. > > > Now why isnt possible to install a previous kernel version? > > ]$ LC_ALL=C sudo rpm -Uvh kernel-desktop-3.1.2-1.1-mdv2012.0.x86_64.rpm > Preparing... ########################################### [100%] > error: Install/Erase problems: > package kernel-desktop-3.1.6-1.2.x86_64 (which is newer than > kernel-desktop-3.1.2-1.1.x86_64) is already installed > > This in fact seams to be a rpm related issue, can you speak with Per > Oyvind so that this can be fixed. rpm option --force is the traditional solution when you wish to install an older version. "Same as using --replacepkgs, --replacefiles, and --oldpackage." Cheers! jim b. -- UNIX is not user unfriendly; it merely expects users to be computer-friendly.