On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 09:17 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote: >> On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 18:05 +0400, Евгений Борисов wrote: >> > I think it's a bad idea, because the directory /lib/modules/$oldVersion$ >> > will be removed when the package is upgraded kernel. Trivial solution not >> > exists. >> >> My solution is to hand-roll my own kernels and initramfs'es after >> removing the kernel and mkinitcpio packages. The way Arch handles its >> kernel packages is a weak point -- Fedora and Ubuntu get this bit right. > > Yeah, why not keep all previous kernels and headers around. We could > automatically extend menu.lst too! > > I'm not sure what you like about Fedora and Ubuntu handling of kernels, > but I found it very annoying to have all that stuff hanging around. > Would be worse with rolling release I'm sure. > > Agreed with Ng Oon-Ee on this one.
