Re: [opensuse-security] Re: [security-announce] SUSE Security Announcement: Linux kernel (SUSE-SA:2009:010)

[Marcus Meissner <meissner@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 01:45:22AM +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tuesday, 2009-03-03 at 16:42 +0100, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> 
> >>>> multiversion = kernel-default,kernel-default-base,kernel-default-extra
> >>>
> >>> Excellent. Where to find more of these valuable hints (except man zypper)? ;-)
> >>
> >> It's a new feature of 11.1. Sometimes it seems the devs hide the golden
> >> new treasures for us to find ;-p
> >
> > It might have hidden pitfalls and bugs. ;)
> >
> > e.g. it leaves _all_ previous kernels installed currently.
> 
> I know... it is a problem for me, as I have a separate /boot partition 
> with limited space. I have to remember it before updating.
> 
> I wonder... does zypper a calculation of needed space before downloading 
> and installing? Does it fail gracefully, allowing one to make more space 
> and hit "retry" before aborting?

It will report an error you will see and not install the RPM. But I guess
just during installation of the RPM.

Ciao, Marcus
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