Re: dselect (Re: Using dpkg for a custom installation from cdrom media)
Henry Hollenberg speed@barney.iamerica.net
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Joost Kooij wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Henry Hollenberg wrote:
>
> > > Was that a kernel you brewed yourself with kernel-package? Then it
> > > probably wasn't mentioned in a "Packages" file. How would dselect know
> > > about your package then?
> >
> > It's one from Herbert Xu that's not showing up in stable or bo-update:
> >
> > http://cgi.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/Packages/unstable/devel/kernel-source-2.0.33.html
> >
> > not sure why it's in unstable/devel since it looks like a stable (even
> > number) release.
>
> Stable and unstable kernel releases have nothing to do with stable and
> unstable debian distribution trees. The Debian unstable tree always has
> stable kernels for instance.
>
> The stable and unstable debian distribution tree have different Packages
> files though. Since the kernel included with "stable" has no major bugs
> that needed to be fixed, it hasn't been changed in the bo tree and neither
> in bo's Packages file. Maybe that explains why you didn't see it; you're
> looking at the Packages file from bo.
What would point dselect at this particular kernel then? (2.0.33)
unstable?
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Joost
>
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