Bug#178988: anna: list of alternatives longer than screen

[Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.cmu.edu>]

On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 09:38:06AM +0100, Martin Sj?gren wrote:
> tor 2003-01-30 klockan 01.17 skrev Matt Kraai:
> > This is a bug in anna.
> 
> Depends on how you look at it. The archive contains both 2.4.19 and
> 2.4.20 kernel module packages. Should it be fixed in the archive, or
> should anna check which kernel is running and use some hack:ish test to
> figure out if each package belongs to this kernel or another?

We need to keep (slightly) outdated kernel module packages in the
archive since prebuilt images may still use them.

I can't imagine why you would install a different kernel package.
How about marking such packages as uninstallable, and then letting
dependencies ensure that its dependent module packages aren't
listed?

Matt