Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Questions on the update system

[Karl Goetz]

On Sat, 01 Aug 2009 21:06:45 +0200
aurelien <address@hidden> wrote:

> On sam, 2009-08-01 at 10:37 +0200, Benedikt Ahrens wrote:
> > aurelien wrote:
> > > On sam, 2009-08-01 at 10:16 +0200, Benedikt Ahrens wrote:
> > >> Hello Aurelien,

> > >>> The update system alert me that there's update for the system.
> > >>> It want to update kernel 2.6.30.3 > 2.6.24.24
> > >>>
> > >>> The system alert don't look by itself on sort of compare way ?
> > >>> Or the update alert system estimate that it's dangerous to use
> > >>> another kernel than itself ?
> > 
> > The update manager will update ALL the packages on your system,
> > independent of the question whether you use them or not. If you
> > want to avoid this, you must remove the unused packages or set them
> > to "hold" in the package manager. Both of these do NOT make any
> > sense in your case. Just let the system update the 2.6.24. It won't
> > do any harm.
> > 
> 
> Hello Ben,
> 
> I don't want to remove the update packages mangager (certainly not).
> i just want to knows why is not able to understant that the last
> kernel must be certainly better than an older. 2.6.30.3 > 2.6.24.

Firstly, newer != better. Just stop kidding yourself.

Secondly, its probably left the .30 kernel in place, but re-set the .24
the default kernel.
kk

> aurele
> 

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