Bug#756464: upgrade-reports: [kfreebsd] dist-upgrade to jessie removes the kernel

[Steven Chamberlain <steven@pyro.eu.org>]

Hi,

On 23:11, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> Wouldn't this be fixed somewhat simply if freebsd-net-tools had a
> depends: kfreebsd-image-10?  So even though freebsd-image-9 gets
> removed due the breaks, the user will at least have the newer kernel
> and a bootable system.

That would work, except any chroot or jail would install a kernel.  I
think, even sbuild running on the buildds would then install a kernel
image and modules inside the build chroot, and that's obviously wrong.

APT understands it should remove kfreebsd-image-9 but just doesn't know
to install kfreebsd-image-10;  I wonder if a Linux dist-upgrade from
squeeze to wheezy pulls in linux-image-3.2 automatically, and how it
does that?

I know Linux packaging does show a prompt if you try to remove the last
kernel image from the system;  something similar would at least alert
users if a dist-upgrade is going wrong, although there must be a way to
fix this to do it right.

Perhaps kfreebsd-image-10 needs to 'Provide' a newer kfreebsd-image-9
version (and adjust the Breaks to << that version), or something ugly
like that?

Regards,
-- 
Steven Chamberlain
steven@pyro.eu.org