Re: What is a Kernel?
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 06:55:22PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes:
>
> > You don't understand make-kpkg at all. It builds a kernel (from
> > whatever source you like, maybe from the kernel-source package, and
> > maybe just something you downloaded) and then it makes a .deb for
> > that kernel which is a clean substitute for the kernel-image
> > package.
>
> With the minor exception that apt will often want to download the
> kernel from the archives if it has a newer version (like via an
> epoch).
>
> So in addition to using kernel package, it's a good idea to do:
>
> echo "kernel-image-2.2.17 hold" | dpkg --set-selections
>
> or something similar.
Yes, and IMO this is retarded behavior. There must be a way to prevent this
from happening.
--Adam
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