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

[Benedikt Ahrens]

aurelien 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,
>>>>
>>>> this update will not delete the 2.6.30 kernel. It will only replace the
>>>> 2.6.24 by another 2.6.24.
>>>>
>>>> ben
>>>>
>>>> aurelien wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> 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 ?
>>>>>
>>>>> aurelien
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>> Hello Ben,
>>>
>>> Thanks for your help !
>>>
>>> But why the module update manager don't understand by it self that is
>>> not necessary ?
>>> Or there is an interest ?
>>>
>>> aurelien
>> Of course there is an interest: avoid security holes in your operating
>> system.
>> 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.
>>
>> ben
> 
> 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.

I was not talking about removing the update manager anyway. As Karl
said, a newer kernel is not necessarily better, and only useful if it
supports hardware which is unsupported by the older one. So if
everything works on your machine with 2.6.24, you should use this one.
And you should definitely install all the updates for 2.6.24.