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
The Kernel can stay updated when passing the metapackage of the backports (linux-image-amd64 or execute the command apt install -t bookworm-backports linux-image-$(dpkg --print-architecture)) and if you install only the kernel image package you will not have future updates. But I don't usually use backports (for Kernel) when I use stable and so I believe it's right following the logic.