On 11/11/19 3:11 am, Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-dev-public wrote:

Hi All,

As most of you have noticed already, the kernel packages had some recent changes where they do not install the kernel to /boot, as well as they do not have any kmod [0] nor mkinitcpio hooks anymore. Neither they do install mkinitcpio presets [1].

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Also, kernel removals are handled by mkinitcpio as well. We want to make the boot process more flexible, while also keeping it backwards compatible by default. There are a few changes I have planned for the next mkinitcpio release [4] that will help even further to achieve this.

Thank you for the detailed explanation. However I have a question related to this change. Due to e1000e related bug in kernel 5.3, few of systems that I manage are still on kernel 5.2.5. # pacman -Q kmod mkinitcpio linux linux-lts kmod 26-2 mkinitcpio 25-2 linux 5.2.5.arch1-1 linux-lts 4.19.61-1 I am planning to do full system upgrade except linux package. i.e. pacman -Syu --ignore linux --ignore linux-lts Would the change in mkinitcpio and /boot create a broken system for me? You have written it is backward compatible. So do you mean it is backward compatible with older linux / linux-lts? In short, can I upgrade the system while still keeping older linux packages (till the e1000e bug is not resolved)? Thank you Amish.