Re: About package linux-image-rt-amd64

[José Agustín Terol Sanchis <agus3985@gmail.com>]

That totally makes sense!

I supose that removing the meta-package is better than leave it there, since it could remain outdated or cause any kind of conflicts, right?

Thank you again,

Agus Terol

2016-09-06 21:31 GMT+02:00 Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>:

Hello,

On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 09:00:36PM +0200, José Agustín Terol Sanchis wrote:
> A few days ago, I saw that meta-package linux-image-rt-amd64 was available
> on sid. However, it is no more there. Also, I would say this is not the
> first time I have seen realtime kernal related packages appear and disapper
> on Debian sid (even in testing).

Usually the rt image is provided if there is an rt patch set for the
given kernel version. See
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/ for available
patches.

Best regards
Uwe


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