Re: New kernel image naming structure

[Paul Cupis <paul@cupis.co.uk>]

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On Sunday 15 Jun 2003 11:43, Adam Warner <lists@consulting.net.nz> 
wrote:

> What do people think of the idea of convenient upgrade packages so
> that one can stay current with a 2.x kernel series simply by
> installing the upgrade package. The upgrade packages could be named:

[snip]

> All the upgrade packages would provide is a dependency upon the
> latest relevant kernel image and a conflict with previous (perhaps
> n-2) binary versions so that previous build versions can be easily
> removed or purged at the same time packages are upgraded.
>
> With an upgrade package installed one would never need to search for
> the latest relevant version of a Debian kernel package, even with
> newer upstream kernel versions.

We have this in testing and unstable already:

paul@kippax:~$ apt-cache show kernel-image-2.4-686
Package: kernel-image-2.4-686
Priority: optional
Section: base
Installed-Size: 32
Maintainer: Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Source: kernel-image-2.4.20-3-i386
Version: 2.4.20-9
Depends: kernel-image-2.4.20-3-686
Filename: 
pool/main/k/kernel-image-2.4.20-3-i386/kernel-image-2.4-686_2.4.20-9_i
386.deb
Size: 5780
MD5sum: 67593f5b04ff2be743ff871d85f5e0e1
Description: Linux kernel image for version 2.4 on 
PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV.
 This package will always depend on the latest 2.4 kernel image 
available
 for Pentium Pro/Celeron/Pentium II/Pentium III/Pentium IV.

We do not currently do this in Woody.

Regards,

Paul Cupis
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paul@cupis.co.uk


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