On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:21:34 -0400 Frank McCormick <debianl...@videotron.ca> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:16:32 -0400 > Celejar <cele...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:05:04 -0400 > > Frank McCormick <debianl...@videotron.ca> wrote: > > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:39:01 -0400 (EDT) > > > Stephen Powell <zlinux...@wowway.com> wrote: > > > > ... > > > > > > to be booted. Then you can purge the old one. aptitude will > > > > not let you purge or remove a running kernel. > > > > > > > > > Uummm...yes it will. I have done it :( accidentally. What a > > > PAIN! > > > > Not sure how you could have done it by accident - aptitude warns you > > thus: > > > > ----- > > > > You are running a kernel (version 2.6.34-rc1-lizzie-00005-g522dba7) > > and attempting to remove the same version. This is a potentially > > disastrous action. Not only > > > Yes. most of us probably know what the warning says. Guess you've > never done anything accidentally. Can you also walk on water :) Fair enough. But you seemed to imply that aptitude just "lets you", and I wanted to clarify that it only lets you after printing a Big Fat Warning about potential disasters, etc, which one must deliberately (or perhaps 'actively' would be a better choice of words) choose to ignore. Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100315233756.53e62573.cele...@gmail.com
