On 1/22/25 00:10, George at Clug wrote:
I apologise, but I do not understand what it is you want to achieve or what it
is that you are asking.
Can you please give more explanation?
I want to install the currently highest version of kernel 6.12 from
bookworm-backports to my Bookworm. Upon some "apt update && apt upgrade"
I want this kernel to become upgraded whenever in backports becomes
available a higher version of kernel 6.12, like having 6.12.9 and
getting 6.12.10. But I do not want this upgrade to step up to the 6.13
versions.
For comfortably running the upgrades in an unattended way, I expect that
I might need some pinning to allow all newer 6.12.x versions to become
drawn in when available, but to not allow any higher kernel version than
6.12.x, so not allowing any 6.13 to become drawn in.
It seems to obvious to me, that I should not install from backports the
package "linux-image-amd64", because this I expect to always point to
the very newest kernel version, but not restricting to the 6.12 series
of kernel versions. If there would be a "linux-image-6.12" package, then
I would be done. Easy. But such "linux-image-6.12" meta-package is not
available in bookworm-backports.
So, I either install now manually a particular version like
"/bookworm-backports/kernel/linux-image-6.12.9+bpo-amd64-unsigned" and
put it on hold and then manually check if some
"linux-image-6.12.10+bpo-amd64-unsigned" (or higher
6.12.maintenanceVersion number) would arrive in the backports repository
and then upgrade to it manually, repeating this manual procedure very
frequently, or I find out how to configure some pinning or whatever for
automation of some 6.12 series restricted upgrades.
My question is what do I have to configure for letting apt upgrade the
backported kernel 6.12 automatically to the newest linux-image-6.12.x
version without upgrading beyond any 6.12 kernel, for instance not
automatically upgrading to any backported kernel 6.13.x version.
