On Saturday 24 June 2006 00:03, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 03:39:00PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > * Base installation - kernel selection > > This is an existing issue, but worth mentioning anyway. > > Selection of the default kernel could be improved for S/390. Current > > selection uses the full kernel version (e.g. 2.6.16-2-s390) used in > > the installer. > > I thought I fixed that to use the 2.6 meta packages. Done now. > > This means that: > > - if that kernel is not available, the fallback is not optimal; for > > example, if I install testing, the 2.6.15-1-s390x kernel will be > > selected by default (while hercules does not support s390x); > > Hmm, is it possible to allow the selection of -s390x but don't ever > select it automaticaly? The problem is that -s390x is sorted before > -s390, why? Current sort order is to present the "most recent" kernels first in the list. I have changed the code a bit so that, when selecting a generic default, a normally sorted list is used. This makes the selection of a default more "conservative" in general.
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