I sent this before.... just not to the mailling list:<br>
No the kernel is diffenitly something you would *not* want to be upgradded without knowing because:<br>
_You could have drivers you compilled for yourselves. Those won't work
with the new kernel wihout being recompilled and might leave you with
an usable system.<br>
_You could use an external bootloader which needs updating (suppose you
have a dual boot with lilo managed by the other bootable system...)<br>
_A whole lot of other reasons.<br>
If someone wants to implement this feature you must take great care of
upgradding only want should be upgarded (breaking binary compatibility
is a no-no for instance).<br>So I'm not against upgradding silently but a think there should be at least three level the user can choose from:<br>
_None (nope I don't want this).<br>
_No breakage of binary cmpatibility (I have my stuff compilled by me
and will be very pissed if I wake up one morning and find it doesn't
work any more)<br>
_Full fledge.<br>
Till<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/11/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ewan Mac Mahon</b> <<a href="mailto:ewan@macmahon.me.uk">ewan@macmahon.me.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 04:15:58PM +0200, Mart©Šn van de Streek wrote:<br>> On Fri, 08 Jul 2005, Wouter Stomp wrote:<br>><br><br>> > About the kernel, I don't think that should be silently upgraded either.<br>>
<br>I don't think there's a problem with automatically installing new<br>kernels; only if the grub default changes to the new one. Updates on<br>RedHat, for example, point the default at the old kernel until you<br>change it manually.
<br><br>> How should an upgrade-tool distinguish between kernels and other<br>> packages?<br>><br>There's some kernel spotting logic in apt somewhere already to make it<br>object if you try to remove the package of the running kernel so it
<br>might be possible to use that.<br><br>Ewan<br><br>--<br>Other ways to find me:<br>Jabber: ewan (at) <a href="http://jabber.org.uk">jabber.org.uk</a> | MSN: ewanmacmahon (at) <a href="http://hotmail.co.uk">hotmail.co.uk
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