On Saturday 08 February 2014 12:29:30 Tom H wrote: > On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 6:32 AM, Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Saturday 08 February 2014 09:40:43 Chris Bannister wrote: > >> AFAIUI, if the package has a different name, as newer releases > >> of kernels do, then APT won't consider it an update, it is just > >> another package. > > > > aptitude has just upgraded me automatically from 3.10-x bpo to > > 3.11-x bpo then to 3.12-0 bpo. I imagine it depends on what it > > has been told to do: safe-upgrade or full-upgrade. > > Irrespective of upgrade/safe-upgrade and dist-upgrade/full-upgrade, > linux-image won't be bumped up to a later kernel version if you > don't have "linux-image-<arch>" installed.
<quote> lisi@Tux-II:~$ aptitude show linux-image-amd64 Package: linux-image-amd64 State: installed Automatically installed: no Version: 3.12+55~bpo70+1 Priority: extra Section: kernel Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team <debian-ker...@lists.debian.org> Architecture: amd64 Uncompressed Size: 6,144 Depends: linux-image-3.12-0.bpo.1-amd64 Conflicts: linux-image-amd64 Provides: linux-latest-modules-3.12-0.bpo.1-amd64 Description: Linux for 64-bit PCs (meta-package) This package depends on the latest Linux kernel and modules for use on PCs with AMD64, Intel 64 or VIA Nano processors. This kernel also runs on a Xen hypervisor. It supports both privileged (dom0) and unprivileged (domU) operation. lisi@Tux-II:~$# </quote> But recently (maybe a week or two?) I did have the earlier kernels installed, so it must upgrade the linux-image it uses - which surely comes in the end to the same thing? I did not install the metapackage deliberately, in fact I didn't know it was there before this thread. I installed kernel 3.10 from backports, which updated automatically first to to 3.11 and then to 3.12. Had I wanted it not to upgrade, would I have needed to search out the metapackage and remove it? Or hold it, of course. Lisi -- 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/201402081655.31085.lisi.re...@gmail.com
