Re: I missed the kernel-image to linux-image thing!

[Steve Block <scblock@ev-15.com>]

On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 04:23:39PM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> I guess I missed something in the weekly update of my testing system.  I
> needed to recompile my 2.4.27 kernel (because USB mass storage suddenly
> broke, on which I'll post seperately if I can't figure it out).  So, I go to
> 'dpkg -i linux-image-2.4.27_...' and it bails because installation will
> overwrite a file (it turns out LOTS of files) provided by '
> kernel-image-2.4.27'.  I used the --force-overwrite option to dpkg to
> install anyway, and it seems no harm was done.  I'm sure there was some good
> reason for the change, but the transition could have been made a little more
> transparent!

You're probably right about the transparancy bit. The reason for the 
change was so that 'kernel' did not necessarily imply 'linux', and gives 
debian the ability to package multiple kernels (solaris, hurd) in the 
same package system as linux.

Of course I'm not exactly sure how that would effect the rest of the 
environment, i.e. i wouldn't expect a program compiled for linux to run 
on a solaris kernel.

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