Re: purpose of kernel-tree packages

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> writes:

> also sprach Horms <horms@debian.org> [2005.02.22.1031 +0100]:
>> Ok, I want to have the latest kernel source installed,
>> so I install kernel-tree. Thats a reason.
>
> Please read the thread before you post. kernel-tree packages do not
> guarantee the latest source to be installed because their
> dependencies are in the wrong order:
>
> $ dpkg-query -W --showformat='${Depends}' kernel-tree-2.6.10
> kernel-patch-debian-2.6.10 (= 2.6.10-4), 
>   kernel-source-2.6.10 (= 2.6.10-1) |
>   kernel-source-2.6.10 (= 2.6.10-2) |
>   kernel-source-2.6.10 (= 2.6.10-3) |
>   kernel-source-2.6.10 (= 2.6.10-4) |
>   kernel-source-2.6.10 (= 2.6.10-5
>
> What do you think will happen when kernel-source-2.6.10_2.6.10-1 is
> already installed and you pull in kernel-tree-2.6.10 because you
> "want to have the latest kernel source installed" ?

What he sees is that "apt-get upgrade" will pull in the new kernel
source. But that is kernel-source doing the pulling.

MfG
        Goswin