Re: What is the difference between linux-image-amd64 and linux-image-3.2.0.4-amd64?
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On 05/29/2014 10:53 AM, Horatio Leragon wrote:
[that on 2014-05-29 at 22:29, Andrei POPESCU wrote:]
>>> "linux-image-amd64" is a metapackage which always depends on the
>>> latest amd64 linux kernel.
>
>> ... for the given release (e.g. stable, backports, testing, etc.)
>
> You have confused me, Andrei.
>
> What did you mean by "....for the given release"??
In Debian, packages are available from repositories.
The official Debian repositories are each named after a Debian release
(by codename, not by number). Each release repository contains packages
designed and tested, to some limited degree, to work together for that
release. Different versions of the same package can exist in different
repositories at the same time.
The current "stable" release is codenamed "wheezy". The version of
linux-image-amd64 in the "wheezy" repository depends on the latest amd64
Linux kernel in the "wheezy" repository: 3.2.0-4.
The current "testing" release is codenamed "jessie". The version of
linux-image-amd64 in the "jessie" repository depends on the latest amd64
Linux kernel in the "jessie" repository: 3.14-1.
There are other repositories: stable-backports, oldstable, unstable, and
so forth. Most of them contain a version of linux-image-amd64. In each
one, the version of linux-image-amd64 will depend on the latest amd64
Linux kernel in that repository, which may not be the same as the latest
one in any other repository.
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