disadvantages of using tumbleweed release if you plan to use a custom kernel

Hi, I think it makes no sense to use Tumbleweed if you plan to compile and use a custom kernel, as kernel is being updated very frequently due to rolling release nature of Tumbleweed, in a week or so you may exhaust the availability of kernel entries in grub, i am yet to investigate what this number is but for sure you will exhaust it sooner or later. Using a LTS is not an option for me, drivers are too old for my rtl8723be wifi chip, low signal, slow download speed, lost connection etc problems that i had to battle until 4.17 that so far has been working great, Is there a way to do some kind of package stickiness within the same oficial repositores? this way the kernel won’t be updated so often until i am ready and have the time to recompile it, Somehow a twisted DYI LTS kernel version.

On Fri 27 Jul 2018 05:16:03 AM CDT, miguel mirandag1975 wrote:

Hi, I think it makes no sense to use Tumbleweed if you plan to compile
and use a custom kernel, as kernel is being updated very frequently due
to rolling release nature of Tumbleweed, in a week or so you may exhaust
the availability of kernel entries in grub, i am yet to investigate what
this number is but for sure you will exhaust it sooner or later. Using a
LTS is not an option for me, drivers are too old for my rtl8723be wifi
chip, low signal, slow download speed, lost connection etc problems
that i had to battle until 4.17 that so far has been working great, Is
there a way to do some kind of package stickiness within the same
oficial repositores? this way the kernel won’t be updated so often until
i am ready and have the time to recompile it, Somehow a twisted DYI LTS
kernel version.

Hi
Why a custom compile, what options are you setting?

Just add a lock to the kernels you don’t want via zypper al
<some_package>.


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