Re: What is a Kernel?

[Andreas Metzler <ametzler@logic.univie.ac.at>]

tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) wrote
> Colin Walters <walters@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:
>> 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).
> 
> Yeah, and the "hold" solution is retarded.
> 
> What I think should be done is that we should have the custom kernels
> that make-kpkg builds have a *different* package name from the
> built-in ones.  That would avoid all the epoch nonsense.  They would
> still provide the kernel-image virtual package name, and all should
> work.

Hello!
Use your own flavour! /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/Flavours.gz
         cu andreas