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Re: Automatic kernel-upgrade: How ?



On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 08:14:05AM -0500, Matthias Julius wrote:
> 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.
> 

Etch's doesn't seem to do that for kernels.

Doug.



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