On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 12:44:42PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > stevendemetrius wrote: > > > > linux-image-2.6-686 is not the actual kernel image. It is a transitional > > package which has a dependency on the latest 2.6.x kernel-image. So your > > kernel will be upgraded everytime you do an upgrade. > > > > If you don't want to have your kernel upgraded automatically then install > > the actual kernel-image such as linux-image-2.6.18-3-686 and remove > > linux-image-2.6-686 / kernel-image-2.6-686. This is the same for smp > > kernels. > > Note that this is no longer a problem as of aptitude version 0.4.4-1: It > will leave old kernel versions installed by default even if it thinks > they were automatically installed as a dependency of a package such as > linux-image-2.6-686. that's great news. as you know we get one of these every day or two. thanks joey. A
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