On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 12:29:41PM +0100, kuene wrote: > On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 16:57, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 02:26:12PM +0100, kuene wrote: > [snip] > > You are still wrong. What you do not understand is, when you install > > Debian, you do not have the package "kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4" installed. > > You have a copy of some of the files in that package, but the package itself > > is not installed, and so will never be automatically upgraded. > [snip] > > I know that the kernel is not installed. > but if you install it (apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4) > it will be an old one, with security holes! > > is this true?
No, that is completely false. -- - mdz
