Re: dist-upgrade wants to install linux-image-2.6.32-5-686

["Jesús M. Navarro" <jesus.navarro@undominio.net>]

Hi, Hugo:

On Wednesday 19 May 2010 20:00:24 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Another apt question.
>
> I have my own kernel installed:
>
> hugo@debian:~/.fvwm$ dpkg -l | grep linux-image
> ii  linux-image-2.6.33.3-hvw             1
>          Linux kernel binary image for version 2.6.33.3-hvw
> ii  linux-image-2.6.33.4-hvw             1
>          Linux kernel binary image for version 2.6.33.4-hvw
>
> no headers and no other debian images.
>
> When I do a apt-get dist-upgrade though I see:
>
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> ...linux-image-2.6-486 linux-image-2.6.32-5-486...
>
> which I want to avoid, because it adds to the time to do the upgrade and
> I am only interested in Debian's 2.6.33, which is still in experimental.
>
> Can anyone think of a way around this?

I bet you already have installed the linux-image-2.6-486 package which is a 
virtual one which points to "whatever is the highest current linux-image for 
the 2.6-486 branch".  This is usually quite usefull since it avoids you to 
know what such current package is.

Since you don't want to get such a "most current package", remove the 
linux-image-2.6-486 one if it's in fact already installed.  From then on 
you'll need to specifically look for and manually install any new higher 
kernel on that series, but that's exactly what you want, isn't it?

Cheers.