Re: aptitude

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

On 2010-11-02 21:43 +0100, patrick wrote:

> if a system is using the bigmem kernel:
>
> uname -a
> Linux buddy2 2.6.26-1-686-bigmem #1 SMP Fri Mar 13 18:52:29 UTC 2009
> i686 GNU/Linux
>
> why would aptitude safe-upgrade try to
> install a non bigmem kernel?

It doesn't, at least not on your system, because that kernel…

> aptitude safe-upgrade
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Reading extended state information
> Initializing package states... Done
> Reading task descriptions... Done
> The following packages will be upgraded:
>   base-files debian-archive-keyring dpkg iputils-ping libaprutil1
> libbz2-1.0 libc6 libc6-dev
>   libc6-i686 libfreetype6 libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-common libpq5
> libssl-dev libssl0.9.8
>   libwww-perl linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 linux-libc-dev locales openssl

…is already installed: it's getting upgraded, not newly installed.  BTW,
your running kernel is horribly outdated and has numerous known security
flaws.

Sven