Re: Re: [ATrpms-users] Too many kernels?

On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 11:02 AM, David Rees  wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 7:32 AM, Axel Thimm wrote:
>> I start to think whether these kernels are indeed being all used to
>> the extend of justifying full kmdl support. Maybe it would make sense
>> to keep the full last series (2.6.18-92* above) and the highest one
>> from the series before (2.6.18-53.1.21.el5 and 2.6.18-8.1.15.el5).
>
> Eek, that's a lot of rebuilds. Yes, I think your suggested policy
> sounds fine to me as generally it's a good idea to keep on the latest
> kernel as usually they are either bugfix or security fix updates.

Ideally yes, but of course there are sometimes problems with a new
kernel which forces users to use the previous one (or an even older
one in really bad cases.

However, I think for the purposes of ATrpms keeping only the latest
is reasonable. The SRPMs are available if needed.