On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 09:47:19PM -0800, rds wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Would someone clarify what kernel-image needs to be installed to keep the
> system updated when new kernel are made available?
>
> I installed kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686 and everything is working fine. From the
> package descriptions it appears that kernel-image-2.6-686 is the package that
> always points to the latest available kernel image, thus automatically
> upgrading kernel whenever "aptitude upgrade" is run.
Exactly
>
> Should I have installed kernel-image-2.6-686 instead of
> kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686 to ensure that aptitude upgrades the kernel image
> whenever a newer version is available?
Exactly
>
> Thanks in advance
>
But, I for one prefer _not_ to upgrade my kernel packages automatically,
so I install the next version whenever I choose to. Which more and more
makes sense to me, as the newest 2.6 kernels seem to have some stability
issues at the moment, so I am happily running 2.6.7-1-686-smp...
Hth,
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