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Re: linux-image backports metapackage



Hi

I suppose you could install linux-image-amd64/bookworm-backports, and then for stable create:

/etc/cron.daily/linux-stable

with permissions 755, and contents:

apt-get -fy install $(apt-cache depends linux-image-amd64/bookworm-security|grep Depends|sed \'s/.*ends:\ //\' | tr '\n' ' ')

Your system probably won't delete older unused stable kernels automatically then.

Regards,
Jan

Resources
https://askubuntu.com/questions/74478/how-to-install-only-the-dependencies-of-a-package


On Sun, 2 Jun 2024 at 06:35, Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> wrote:
02.06.2024 01:40, Johan Kröckel wrote:
> 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.

So if there's an issue with bpo kernel (bpo is what you usually use), you switch back to
the previously running bpo kernel which worked.  Problem solved.

> 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?

Apt only keeps 2.

/mjt


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