Hi folks, I am just putting this up to see what others think.
In my opinion the ‘kernel-stable’ repo should not be called ‘kernel-stable’, rather, its name should reflect the fact that it is ANYTHING BUT ‘stable’. Now I have never had an issue with the contents, and I am sure that the kernels that make it in to the repo are tested and judged to be more or less bug-free. But the fact is that the kernels are updated at least once a week. For non-power-users like me, especially those who use a proprietary graphics driver, this is a bit of extra work, and when NVidia decide not to update their video drivers, and the user has manually to patch the driver he has, it can get quite confusing (I don’t mind this at all, btw)
I know that there is no real need for me to be using any kernel newer than the one that comes in the 12.3 repo, but surely people like me running the newer ones is part of the reason they are available, ie if my particular set of weird or wonky hardware reveals a bug or problem, it can get reported before it is passed to the main repo. For instance I have a couple of WiFi devices which I have been waiting to be in-kernel, so I can do without ndiswrapper etc.
As I say, this is just about the name of the repo.
[Kernel-Stable]
name=Kernel-Stable
enabled=1
autorefresh=0
baseurl=http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/stable/standard/
type=rpm-md
On a related issue, this has been rather problematic lately due to this:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820367
Which left my / full up with thirty or so old kernels, which were not being purged!