Re: Automatic kernel-upgrade: How ?

[Matthias Julius <lists@julius-net.net>]

Wolfgang Mader <Wolfgang_Mader@gmx.de> writes:

> linux-image-2.6-amd64
> This package depends on the latest binary image for Linux kernel
> This packages just installes an new image, if one is availabel. You have to 
> uninstall the old one by hand.

This depends.  Aptitude can track automatically installed packages
(e.g. packages that are installed because of a dependency on them).
Aptitude will then uninstall an old kernel as soon as
linux-image-2.6-amd64 doesn't depend on it anymore.

Matthias