Re: How to block kernel updates

[Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net>]

On Sat, 2014-02-08 at 07:29 -0500, Tom H wrote:
> linux-image won't be bumped up to a later kernel version if you don't
> have "linux-image-<arch>" installed.

Let's make a real job of it.

Metapackage:
http://packages.debian.org/sid/linux-image-amd64

dep: linux-image-3.12-1-amd64

If you don't install the metapackage, but linux-image-3.12-1-amd64 only,
than the kernel will not be automatically upgraded.

There is no kernel part of this package:

File list of package linux-image-amd64 in sid of architecture amd64

/usr/share/bug/linux-image-amd64/presubj
/usr/share/doc/linux-image-amd64/NEWS.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/linux-image-amd64/changelog.gz
/usr/share/doc/linux-image-amd64/copyright

Only the dependency is important.

If you install

http://packages.debian.org/sid/linux-image-3.12-1-amd64 without the
metapackage, then it never will be upgraded, excepted there should be a
version 3.12-2.