Re: What's Debian's /usr/src policy
On Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 04:11:57PM +0100, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>
> > I think it does gain something; it is much easier to have multiple
> > versions around. If I compile a new 2.1 kernel and find that
> > it is not too good (like 2.1.76 seems to have broken sound
> > for me so I went back to 2.1.72), I can just reinstall the old
> > one with dpkg. I don't need to edit my lilo config, play with
> > symlinks in / etc.
>
> If you wrote your lilo config propperly, you did not have to reinstall at all..
> Just have multiple bootable configs and one 'default=xxx' (or whatever it
> was called), which you change depending on your working kernel... I for one
> have ten or fifteen different kernels that I can boot, depending on if the
> new one worked or not...
No, I said I don't want to edit my lilo.conf. The only way to get more
than two kernels (current and previous) is to edit your lilo config
each time. And if one of them is broken, I don't want it to be the default,
so I have to edit lilo.conf again. Easier just to use dpkg I think.
hamish
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