[arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel

Loui Chang louipc.ist at gmail.com
Sat Jul 17 15:08:56 EDT 2010


On Sat 17 Jul 2010 12:15 -0500, C Anthony Risinger wrote:
> On Jul 17, 2010, at 11:42 AM, Loui Chang <louipc.ist at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat 17 Jul 2010 11:06 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote:
> >> Oh, I do.  I would just prefer to work with the package management
> >> framework, not work around it.
> >
> > I think this is something that hooks could do. It's a feature that's
> > in brainstorming. Maybe you could help implement it.
> >
> > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Allan/Pacman_Hooks
> 
> As a heads up, this (kernel rollbacks) is a planned feature of the
> mkinitcpio-btrfs hook in AUR.  It will be implemented in one or more
> of about three ways:
> 
> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=778395#p778395
> 
> You must be using btrfs for / of course.

So, that's not something that would work within the package management
framework, is it?



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