yum wants to remove my kernels, why?

[Rahul Sundaram]

Timothy Murphy wrote:

>On Sunday 22 January 2006 16:55, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
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>>>>>but in my view the default should be to keep the current, working kernel
>>>>>as the default (as I believe it used to be).
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>>>I still think it is a bad idea to install the new kernel automatically.
>>>The worst thing that can happen for a newbie
>>>is that he turns on his laptop and it doesn't work
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>>New kernels should never result in major regressions. We need to work on
>>that instead of providing workarounds. What users can do is help
>>checking updates-testing repository and making sure that it works. More
>>feedback would definitely help increase the robustness of updates.
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>I'm very happy with yum - in fact I think it is the best thing about Fedora -
>but aren't you being excessively idealistic
>in thinking that any kernel update will work on every machine running Fedora?
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We should shoot in for the best we can. We just cant afford to have 
users running any insecure kernel and thereby invalidating all the other 
security features[1] implemented..

>As for feedback, I've found it very difficult to report on problems I've had,
>and when I have managed to do this
>there has never been any useful response.
>I think bugzilla should be made simpler to use
>if more feedback is desired.
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There is some discussions going on towards this. Meanwhile bug buddy 
using xmlrpc in the future is good news.

>By contrast, I've always had a good response
>when writing to this list.
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Bugzilla is just more efficient as a tracking system. Developers might 
respond here and just forget about it. Bugzilla is a open TODO list.

-- 
Rahul 

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[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security/