Re: Bad practice to make a package depend on a specific kernel image

[Stefan Fritsch <sf@sfritsch.de>]

On Tuesday 02 January 2007 03:33, Robert Collins wrote:
> I think its a fair and proper assumption that the stack of software
> is all packaged: its very easy to build a packaged, vanilla kernel
> - and doing so can generate appropriate information for dpkg.

But on vserver and xen machines, the kernel is installed only in the 
host system, not in the virtual machines. Therefore you cannot assume 
that any kernel-image (packaged or self-compiled) is installed at 
all.

Cheers,
Stefan