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Re: reportbug showing more recent linux kernel than exists in .au repo



On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 11:42:50PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> On 1/25/14, Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 09:37:08PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> >> On 1/25/14, Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Now these are the only two uncommented lines in /etc/apt/sources.list:
> >> > deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian wheezy main contrib non-free
> >> > deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib
> >>
> >> bleh!!
> >>
> >> wheezy is not sid :/
> >>
> >> sorry for the noise...
> >
> > Also the kernel is not automatically updated when a newer version comes
> > out unless you have the kernel meta package installed, e.g:
> > "linux-image-amd64"
> 
> Good point. Not applicable in my particular case.

No, hence the 'also', but still worth remembering.

> Is the kernel not auto-updated, even if the package name is the same?

TTBOMK, yes it is. (Otherwise how would security patches be accomplished?)

> Eg, in my case, the kernel I needed was in the package:
> linux-image-3.12-1-rt-amd64
> 
> which package name did not change, but the "version" did as follows, from:
> Version      : 3.12.6-2
> to
> Version      : 3.12.8-1

But it was automatically upgraded?

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