[sles-beta] Kernel Update SP2 > SP3

[Daniel Rahn]

On Wed, Jul 03, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
> The extra channel is only for mirgration for a short time,
> you shouldn't use packages from it long term.

I beg to differ.

The extra channel is always available and contains packages for the
major release, alas it contains packages for SP2 and will in future also
contain packages for SP3. It is not split per SP level.

We deliver unsupported packages via that channel, especially as outlined
by Günter the kernel-$flavor-extra package (and some others as openmotif,
yum and the ext4-writeable KMP for SP2).

The problem is that when a user installed kernel-$flavor-extra on SP2,
an upgrade to SP3 will not work correctly as we have not filled the
matching SP3 packages into that channel yet.

-Daniel

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