On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Vic Demuzere <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10 June 2011 15:25, Paul Gideon Dann <[email protected]> wrote: >> Also, I wonder what happens if power is lost whilst pacman is installing a >> new >> kernel? I haven't tried this, but it wouldn't surprise me if the system >> ended >> up with a truncated kernel that wouldn't boot. That's a bug right there, >> although it's a pretty tiny corner case, granted :) >> >> Paul >> > > Is that the case? The kernel should be replaced only after the new one > is ready, else it would fail if you pushed CTRL+C while updating the > kernel as well. > > Vic >
paul, please check out https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8585 for the power issue I really don't see how implementing this feature would give any more benefits to say installing an -lts kernel or some other kernel you know just works. On the other hand, I do see versioned kernels increasing the complexity of the system.
