F8 kernel-2.6.24.3-12.fc8

[Trond Danielsen]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 12:13 AM, Andrew Farris <lordmorgul at gmail.com> wrote:
> Benjamin Kreuter wrote:
>  > On Thursday 06 March 2008 19:29:23 Chuck Ebbert wrote:
>  >> Sorry, we had to release with known bugs. A new kernel will be in
>  >> updates-testing very shortly.
>  >
>  > Why did you have to release with known bugs?  Why not just wait until the bugs
>  > are fixed?  The last three kernel updates broke suspend for me...
>
>  Then why are you installing them?  If this kernel was known to break things,
>  then when it hits updates don't install it... not rocket science.

When the yum update applet reports that new updates are available, I
always choose to accept them without checking in advance whether or
not they will render my computer unusable.

Also if I did decide to check if the update would break my system, it
currently is not possible to tell pup to ignore this particular
update.

A try-catch mechanism could provide a fallback solution to kernels.
Kernels could be marked as bootable, not_checked and non_bootable, and
grub could check this flag/status file and switch to the first
bootable kernel if the default is marked as non_bootable. Perhaps a
feature like this is already available in grub?

-- 
Trond Danielsen