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Re: installing kernel-debs



Joerg,

	By a coincidence, I had opened a bug yesterday on this very
topic. Here is the link which also contains the maintainer response.

Regards,
Jor-el

On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Joerg Johannes wrote:

> Hello list
> 
> I have, in the last few weeks, compiled a lot of kernels (with
> make-kpkg)
> Well, I have installed these kernel-image-blah.deb's, but without
> removing the old ones. dpkg -l shows
> 
> ii kernel-image-2. # <-- dpk -l does not show more of the package
> version
> ii kernel-image-2.
> ii kernel-image-2.
> ii kernel-image-2.
> ...
> 
> How can I safely remove the old ones (whose files were overwritten by
> the newer ones) ?
> I could make a 2.4.5 kernel and remove all the 2.4.3.deb's, but will
> this work? won't dpkg complain about files that are not there but should
> be there?
> 
> 
> joerg
> 
> -- 
> Did you know that if you play a Windows 2000 cd backwards, you 
> will hear the voice of Satan?
> 
> That's nothing!  If you play it forward, it'll install Windows 2000.
> 
> 
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