Re: Bug#269183: kernel: conflict with older packages
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 10:03:50 +0100, Carl Johnstone
<carl.johnstone@gmgrd.co.uk> said:
> There are a few pacakges designed to keep you up to date with the
> latest kernel version - ie:
> kernel-image-2.4-686-smp kernel-image-2.6-686 etc
> It would be good if these packages could conflict with the kernel
> version one before last so that old kernels are removed by dselect.
> My reasoning for one before last is so that you can still boot Linux
> and LinuxOLD through LILO.
How do you know which was the last kernel installed on my
machine? What if I only upgrade once a month? twice a year? Once a
year? Or do only people who install every possible kernel upload get
to keep their lilo unbroken?
What if I am using the optional postinst hooks to keep 4
kernels in my lilo.conf? Or keep two series, 4 kernels from the 2.4
series, and 2 from the 2.6 series, but would like to also have new
2.4 and 2.6 kernels installed?
manoj
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