Re: What is a Kernel?

[tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)]

Colin Walters <walters@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:

> 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).

Yeah, and the "hold" solution is retarded.

What I think should be done is that we should have the custom kernels
that make-kpkg builds have a *different* package name from the
built-in ones.  That would avoid all the epoch nonsense.  They would
still provide the kernel-image virtual package name, and all should
work.

Manoj, is there some reason why this doesn't work?  I think it would
deal with the problem that happened recently when the kernel-image
maintainer decided he wanted an epoch, for example.