Re: Kernel upgrades = security upgrades

[Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>]

Brian Servis wrote:

> > Ok.  To my way of thinking it should be called kernel-image_2.0.34,
> > kernel-image_2.0.36-3, etc.  That way apt-get upgrade would grab updated
> > kernels for the user.
> 
> If kernel-images did not have the version in the package name then you
> could not have two different versions of the kernel installed at the
> same time. 

We could still have a latest-kernel-image-2.0_2.0.38 and
latest-kernel-image-2.2_2.2.12 that some users could choose to
use instead.

Peter