It seems like I have 4-5 different vmlinuz-2.6.37-slitaz kernels with exactly the same name which are not compatible with other versions. Maybe is would be a good idea to designate the changes with a number, e.g. vmlinuz-2.6.37-slitaz-1?
vmlinuz-2.6.37-slitaz
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offlineUnregisteredPosted 13 years ago # -
Only a version update will have a filename version change,more frequent build updates don't. The way tazpkg determines a build update is by comparing the md5sum list of your installed tazpkgs with the md5sum list of the same tazpkgs on the cooking repo it downloads when you recharge. If they differ and the filename version number is the same it's a build update. If the filename version is different then of course the md5sum is different and it's a version update.
All cooking the kernel and modules updates since the change to 2.6.37 are builds so the name of the old and new would be identical. On my systems which I've been running since Feb.2011 the new kernel and modules have always overwriten the old kernel/modules. How you've accumulated all those worthless kernels without manually moving/copying them before an upgrade is a mystery.Posted 13 years ago # -
Anonymous
offlineUnregisteredI was booting from iso images using grub 2, so I mostly did manual installations using instructions from the manual. As I am testing and experimenting I have several different installations, and I use a separate boot directory. Slitaz failed installing any package int a directory that is just a symlink, so that was one way I got different kernels.
I guess if I was just using it as a bootable cd and installing to a single partition I would never have had the trouble. But I did stuff like create new iso's using tazlito. When tazlito requests a cd to load a kernel from, which one do I use? I finally found the rolling release iso's on a mirror and that's how I do it now, but they were not easy to find and the documentation of this process is sparse.
I wish I could use the release version of slitaz for this project, but I need some apps that are only available in cooking. I'm still hopeful slitaz will do the job I need it to do when the 4.0 milestone is reached.
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