Re: need kernel update for lenny ..
On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 18:08:58 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> On 29/08/12 17:28, Camaleón wrote:
>> It does not matter that Lenny is out of support (formerly codenamed
>> "oldstable") because even the current stable release (Squeeze) neither
>> get kernel upgrades (for kernel upgrades I mean going from 2.6.26 to
>> 2.6.32 or 3.x branch, for instance). Kernel upgrades in Debian only
>> happen in testing (until becomes frozen) and sid.
>>
> Unless there's an upgrade to fix a security issue, I believe?
Sure, that's what I said in an earlier post¹ ;-)
> 2012-05-10 08:01:57,434 INFO Starting unattended upgrades script
> 2012-05-10 08:01:57,434 INFO Allowed origins are: ["('Debian', 'stable')", "('Debian', 'squeeze-security')"]
> 2012-05-10 08:05:42,539 INFO Packages that are upgraded: linux-base linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64
But still security updates for the kernel keep the same branch
(2.6.32), they can't jump so far because of compatibility (ABI) issues.
¹http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/08/msg01890.html
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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