On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Vic Demuzere <vic@demuzere.be> wrote:
On 10 June 2011 15:25, Paul Gideon Dann <pdgiddie@gmail.com> wrote:
Also, I wonder what happens if power is lost whilst pacman is installing a new kernel? I haven't tried this, but it wouldn't surprise me if the system ended up with a truncated kernel that wouldn't boot. That's a bug right there, although it's a pretty tiny corner case, granted :)
Paul
Is that the case? The kernel should be replaced only after the new one is ready, else it would fail if you pushed CTRL+C while updating the kernel as well.
Vic
paul, please check out https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8585 for the power issue I really don't see how implementing this feature would give any more benefits to say installing an -lts kernel or some other kernel you know just works. On the other hand, I do see versioned kernels increasing the complexity of the system.