Re: Metapackage to newest (stable?) backports-kernel-image?
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-10-10 at 11:52 +0200, Johan Kröckel wrote:
>> This would be great, so one could be sure to be up to date on both kernels.
>
> The linux-latest metapackage is already backported. However the APT
> Release files for backports contain:
>
> NotAutomatic: yes
> ButAutomaticUpgrades: yes
>
> Which means that 'apt-get dist-upgrade' will still not install the new
> kernel package when there is an ABI change. This might be overridable
> by pinning.
>
> Ben.
>
I don't see why: It will upgrade the packages from latest on a dist upgrade,
and those will pull in new kernels.
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