Re: What is a Kernel?

[Colin Walters <walters@cis.ohio-state.edu>]

tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes:

> You don't understand make-kpkg at all.  It builds a kernel (from
> whatever source you like, maybe from the kernel-source package, and
> maybe just something you downloaded) and then it makes a .deb for
> that kernel which is a clean substitute for the kernel-image
> package.

With the minor exception that apt will often want to download the
kernel from the archives if it has a newer version (like via an
epoch).

So in addition to using kernel package, it's a good idea to do:

echo "kernel-image-2.2.17 hold" | dpkg --set-selections

or something similar.