Re: [ANNOUNCE] Kernel v3.1.6-1.2 (cooker only)

Fabrice Facorat <[email protected]> writes:

> 2012/1/5 Franck Bui <[email protected]>:
>
>> 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 ?
>
> do you plan to call each of them ?

No I'm waiting for them to call me :)

> Except if this is automated, this won't work.  Users should just
> blindly press "Updates", and after a reboot, they should still have a
> working system

More seriously, I agree this should be fixed.

A hack like the following could have fixed this I think, but i don't
think it's possible. In the kernel-desktop-latest package, we could do
this:

  %post
  flavour=genric
  grep -q pae /proc/cpuinfo && flavour=desktop
  urpmi kernel-$flavour

If someone can spot a safe way to do the equivalent, please tell.

Otherwise, I'll change the kernel-desktop-latest to require
kernel-generic.

Most of the users will use the generic flavour wrongly (but it will
work) and the rest will be happy.

-- 
		Franck