[arch-general] Linux kernel 4.0.2-1 flagged out-of date.

Francis Gerund ranrund at gmail.com
Thu May 14 01:33:59 UTC 2015


So, if a package (even a kernel) is shown flagged as "out-of-date"
on the Arch website, and there is no later package (excluding testing,
etc.), is it okay to install or update that package, if there are no other
indications not to?



On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 8:18 PM, Eli Schwartz <eschwartz93 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 6:13 PM, Francis Gerund <ranrund at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi.
> >
> > Linux kernel 4.0.2-1 is flagged out-of date, just hours after release.
> But
> > pacmatic keeps offering it as an update (along with other packages), with
> > no warning message.
> >
> > I am using Linux kernel 4.0.1-1-ARCH (X-64).
> >
> > Should I go ahead and update, or wait for Linux kernel 4.0.3-1?
> >
>
> Looks like just a routine upstream kernel update, but 4.0.2 was in testing
> until just now. Amusing timing. :)
>
> -- Eli Schwartz
>


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