Re: update-initramfs

[David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>]

On Tue 11 Apr 2023 at 22:14:18 (+0200), zithro wrote:
> I thought :
> 
> - you can install as many kernel packages as you want, whether built
> or downloaded
> - updates don't automatically remove old kernels/initrd by default
> 
> So I wonder, why handling it manually ?
> What is the advantage, except for adding -confusion- ?

There is one case where a kernel is silently removed, and that is when
they tweak it without changing the minor number (or whatever that
number is now called). IIRC it hasn't happened for quite some time;
perhaps the last was in June 2020, when 4.19.118-2+deb10u1 replaced
4.19.118-2 for linux-image-4.19.0-9-amd64.

Found in APT's history log with /linux-image.*\(([-0-9\.]+), \1

Cheers,
David.