Re: What is a Kernel?
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Adam McKenna wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 06:55:22PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Yes, and IMO this is retarded behavior. There must be a way to prevent this
> from happening.
I guess you write a small shell script to both install and put on hold
the kernel .deb.
-S
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