Re: Multiple installed kernel-image packages?
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 11:30:15PM -0500, William Ballard wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 11:08:19PM -0500, Adam Aube wrote:
> > Paul Gear wrote:
> [snip nested attributions, correctly I hope]
> > > Thanks for the detailed response. Are you saying that once my system is
> > > installed (on 2.6.8, as it happens), it will never get an upgrade to
> > > 2.6.9 (once it is released) unless i explicitly install it?
> >
> > Correct.
>
> Why in the heck isn't there a:
> kernel-source-latest, which is upgraded whenever a new kernel source package
> comes out, and depends on that, and a
> kernel-source-latest-only, which depends on kernel-source-latest and
> conflicts with earlier kernel-source packages?
There are source packages kernel-latest-{version}-{arch}. Is this what
you are looking for? (E.g. kernel-latest-2.6-i386)
>
> Doing the same for kernel-images would result in an explosion of
> kernel-image-* packages in the archive, so maybe just do it for the source.
> Only two extra packages.
As another thread pointed out there are meta-packages for images that
will always depend on the latest kernel.
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Chris Harris <charris@rtcmarketing.com>
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