Re: aptitude lists linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 under Obsolete and Locally Created Packages?
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:21:34 -0400
Frank McCormick <debianlist@videotron.ca> wrote:
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> On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:16:32 -0400
> Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:05:04 -0400
> > Frank McCormick <debianlist@videotron.ca> wrote:
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> > > On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:39:01 -0400 (EDT)
> > > Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com> wrote:
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> > ...
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> > > > to be booted. Then you can purge the old one. aptitude will
> > > > not let you purge or remove a running kernel.
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> > > Uummm...yes it will. I have done it :( accidentally. What a
> > > PAIN!
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> > Not sure how you could have done it by accident - aptitude warns you
> > thus:
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> > You are running a kernel (version 2.6.34-rc1-lizzie-00005-g522dba7)
> > and attempting to remove the same version. This is a potentially
> > disastrous action. Not only
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> Yes. most of us probably know what the warning says. Guess you've
> never done anything accidentally. Can you also walk on water :)
Fair enough. But you seemed to imply that aptitude just "lets you",
and I wanted to clarify that it only lets you after printing a Big Fat
Warning about potential disasters, etc, which one must deliberately (or
perhaps 'actively' would be a better choice of words) choose to ignore.
Celejar
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