Re: How to block kernel updates
On Sat, 2014-02-08 at 13:46 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> 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.
Perhaps I'm wrong ;). However, a there would be no upgrade to 3.13. I'm
not sure about the "-2" build of the same kernel.
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