Re: Powerfail-safe kernel pkg installation

2007-05-28 Thread Mirsad Todorovac
On Fri, 25 May 2007, Matej Vela wrote: Mirsad Todorovac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: During the upgrade to new kernel package it happened that I noted the following: 1. package kernel-new was downloaded 2. kernel-old was removed 3. kernel-new was unpacked 4. kernel-new was setup [...] Actua

Re: Powerfail-safe kernel pkg installation

2007-05-25 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Steve Langasek [Fri, 25 May 2007 11:36:25 -0700]: > With current aptitude, this is not the case. There is a specific aptitude > rule to exclude linux-image packages from "auto" handling. Oh, cool. I didn't know about this. Thanks, -- Adeodato Simó dato at

Re: Powerfail-safe kernel pkg installation

2007-05-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 08:30:14PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Matej Vela [Fri, 25 May 2007 20:16:44 +0200]: > > Actually, Debian's kernel packages never remove old versions, they > > simply pull in new ones. > This is not the case in one particular scenario: one installs one of the > kernel

Re: Powerfail-safe kernel pkg installation

2007-05-25 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Matej Vela [Fri, 25 May 2007 20:16:44 +0200]: > Actually, Debian's kernel packages never remove old versions, they > simply pull in new ones. This is not the case in one particular scenario: one installs one of the kernel metapackages, eg. linux-image-686, with aptitude. The image that gets ins

Re: Powerfail-safe kernel pkg installation

2007-05-25 Thread Matej Vela
Mirsad Todorovac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > During the upgrade to new kernel package it happened that I noted the > following: > > 1. package kernel-new was downloaded > 2. kernel-old was removed > 3. kernel-new was unpacked > 4. kernel-new was setup [...] Actually, Debian's kernel packages ne