stevendemetrius wrote: > > linux-image-2.6-686 is not the actual kernel image. It is a transitional > package which has a dependency on the latest 2.6.x kernel-image. So your > kernel will be upgraded everytime you do an upgrade. > > If you don't want to have your kernel upgraded automatically then install > the actual kernel-image such as linux-image-2.6.18-3-686 and remove > linux-image-2.6-686 / kernel-image-2.6-686. This is the same for smp > kernels.
Note that this is no longer a problem as of aptitude version 0.4.4-1: It will leave old kernel versions installed by default even if it thinks they were automatically installed as a dependency of a package such as linux-image-2.6-686. -- see shy jo
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