Re: Multiple installed kernel-image packages?
Putting this back to the list...
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 04:33:43PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 12:45:09PM -0700, CW Harris wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 12:31:33PM -0700, CW Harris wrote:
>>> On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 12:33:14PM -0500, William Ballard wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 10:19:23AM -0700, CW Harris wrote:
>>>>> There are source packages kernel-latest-{version}-{arch}. Is this what
>>>>> you are looking for? (E.g. kernel-latest-2.6-i386)
>>>>
>>
>> Following up on this a bit more...
>>
>> I don't know what kernel-latest-2.6-i386 is (maybe patches?) but it is
>> definitely too small to be the full kernel source.
>>
>> $ apt-get -s source kernel-latest-2.6-i386
>> Reading Package Lists...
>> Building Dependency Tree...
>> Need to get 3691B of source archives.
>> Fetch Source kernel-latest-2.6-i386
>>
>> Sorry for the trouble. Maybe these are just packages the maintainers use
>> to keep things up to date (since they don't show up properly in
>> searches).
>>
>
> For most Debian packages, one can upgrade to the latest version
> without fear of breaking anything. But, installing a new kernel
> requires a reboot of your computer in order to check if it has been
> correctly. You don't have to do the reboot, but if its not correctly
> installed and if there is a power failure and you try to get going
> again after it, you have a problem. So, Debian policy is that kernel
> upgrades require manual intervention. You can build a script that
> finds the latest kernel patches and applies them to the latest
> kernel source, and compiles the kernel, builds the kernel deb, and
> installs it, but the high priests of Debian are too timid to do
> such a thing. (And, IMHO, you should be, also.)
This was in response to automatically installing the latest *source*
package, not automatically installing the latest image. I agree it
would not be good to automatically install a new kernel.
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Chris Harris <charris@rtcmarketing.com>
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