My use case is:
Run the up-to-date backports kernel and always have the up-to-date stable kernel as fallback installed, since the backports kernel sometimes changes drastically and is not as tested as the stable kernel. The thing is: it's nice to have the new features of the bpo kernel but in the end, I need to work: run bpo-kernel -> nice -> upgrade with problems -> doesn't matter, reboot, stable kernel -> keep on working.
I don't think the "you can run only one kernel, so why have more than one installed?" argument does not hold, because I think it's good practice to keep the last kernel installed as a fallback as well. Yes, I run only one, but I have two installed anyway, so why not four?
Am Sa., 1. Juni 2024 um 22:21 Uhr schrieb Michael Tokarev <
mjt@tls.msk.ru>:
01.06.2024 14:34, Johan Kröckel wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I think I asked this before but I'd like to have both the current stable and backports kernels installed.
>
> When I upgrade linux-image-amd64 to the backports version the stable kernel is not upgraded anymore. When I just install the current backports package
> directly, like linux-image-6.7.12+bpo-amd64, it stays at that version.
>
> I think (not sure anymore) Ubuntu-backports uses a meta-package like linux-image-amd64-bookworm-backports.
This isn't really practical.
You can only run one kernel, you can't run two or more.
You can install single version of bpo kernel, for example, to check something, ie,
temporarily - this is when you install particular version of it. After checking,
you either remove it and stay with stable/bookworm kernel, or you install
linux-image-amd64 from bpo, - this way you'll stay current with backports.
Or you install linux-image-amd64 from backports directly, and start following backports
kernel from now on.
There's no two lines of the kernel, there's just one.
/mjt
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