Hello all, During the last couple of weeks 2.6.19 and 2.6.20 were pushed to fc6-updates. With the push, all older kernel updates (2.6.18-xxx) were removed from the main, and mirror servers. Due to lack of sleep I removed the old 2.6.18 kernel I had on my development machine (rpm -e $(rpm -qa | grep 2.6.18) should not be done @5am... ;)) - just to find out that vmware-server dies a horrible death (taking the host with it) when combined with kernels >= 2.6.19. Now, I'm left with a problem, I cleared the yum cache and there are no 2.6.18 RPMs available from any official source (beyond the initial -core RPMs), and using 2.6.19/20 will most likely send me to the loony bin. (Eating my software raid5 with it) My request is simple *, keep the old -updates kernels, or at least the latest 5 of them, on the servers - just in-case something goes horribly wrong and some people need an old kernel. Unlike other packages, the kernel tends to push forward quite rapidly - breaking things from time to time (binary modules - mostly). While I know that Fedora != RHEL, and doesn't maintain a stable kernel-ABI, I doubt that keeping older versions of the kernel (just in-case someone needs them) will generate too much noise/problems/over-head. As for me, I'm back to the original -core kernel (2798?) waiting for a vmware fix... :( - Gilboa * Or so it seems to me. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
