Re: How to block kernel updates
On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 6:32 AM, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 08 February 2014 09:40:43 Chris Bannister wrote:
>>
>> AFAIUI, if the package has a different name, as newer releases of
>> kernels do, then APT won't consider it an update, it is just
>> another package.
>
> aptitude has just upgraded me automatically from 3.10-x bpo to 3.11-x
> bpo then to 3.12-0 bpo. I imagine it depends on what it has been
> told to do: safe-upgrade or full-upgrade.
Irrespective of upgrade/safe-upgrade and dist-upgrade/full-upgrade,
linux-image won't be bumped up to a later kernel version if you don't
have "linux-image-<arch>" installed.
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