Please can someone confirm my understanding of the following: I used zypper to update successively from 11.4 to 12.2 going through all the intermediate steps. It seemed to work fine except when I subsequently tried to do a patch update. I received the error:
#### YaST2 conflicts list - generated 2013-01-16 10:11:00 ####
kernel-default-base-3.4.11-2.16.1.i586 conflicts with kernel-default = 3.4.11-2.16.1 provided by kernel-default-3.4.11-2.16.1.i586
[ ] downgrade of kernel-default-3.4.11-2.16.1.i586 to kernel-default-3.4.6-2.10.1.i586
[ ] do not install kernel-default-base-3.4.11-2.16.1.i586
Reading this forum it would appear that the solution is simply to remove kernel-default-base since various people have noted that it is just a minimum kernel and not needed if another kernel is used in the install. This is somewhat confusing for innocent readers like me given the description of "base modules" which reads:
kernel-default-base - The Standard Kernel - base modules
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i.e. what I understand from the forum is the "required in all installs" simply refers to the modules and NOT "this package". If I understand correctly it should read something like "This package is a stand-alone kernel containing only those modules which are required for every system; it is not required by any other kernels".
Please can someone confirm this understanding before I delete the "kernel-default-base" package and possibly render my system unbootable when "kernel-default" refuses to work without it>:(
PS I was surprised by this since I thought that Opensuse offered to permit multiple kernels which could be chosen at boot time.
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