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].
...
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.
