Re: I missed the kernel-image to linux-image thing!

2006-03-08 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 3/7/06, Linas Zvirblis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Patrick Wiseman wrote:> I guess I missed something in the weekly update of my testing system.  I> needed to recompile my 2.4.27 kernel (because USB mass storage suddenly> broke, on which I'll post seperately if I can't figure it out).  So, I go t

Re: I missed the kernel-image to linux-image thing!

2006-03-08 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 3/8/06, Linas Zvirblis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Adam Funk wrote:> In that case, should linux-image-2.4.27 indicate "Conflicts" to> prevent apt from letting them both be installed simultaneously?I guess it should. But to tell you the truth, I cannot see a package named "linux-image-2.4.27" anyw

Re: I missed the kernel-image to linux-image thing!

2006-03-08 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Adam Funk wrote: > In that case, should linux-image-2.4.27 indicate "Conflicts" to > prevent apt from letting them both be installed simultaneously? I guess it should. But to tell you the truth, I cannot see a package named "linux-image-2.4.27" anywhere, only "kernel-image-2.4.27". Either I am bl

Re: I missed the kernel-image to linux-image thing!

2006-03-07 Thread Adam Funk
On 2006-03-07, Linas Zvirblis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I cannot speak for how transparent it is or it is not, but you should > have uninstalled kernel-image-2.4.27 before installing > linux-image-2.4.27, and not let it overwrite things. Now if you > uninstall one of them, it will take part of

Re: I missed the kernel-image to linux-image thing!

2006-03-07 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 07 March 2006 16:38, Paul Smith wrote: > %% "Patrick Wiseman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > pw> I'm sure there was some good reason for the change > > Indeed: "kernel" is too generic a term. > > People are trying to create Debian distributions on a FreeBSD kernel, > and Hurd microker

Re: I missed the kernel-image to linux-image thing!

2006-03-07 Thread Steve Block
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 04:23:39PM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: I guess I missed something in the weekly update of my testing system. I needed to recompile my 2.4.27 kernel (because USB mass storage suddenly broke, on which I'll post seperately if I can't figure it out). So, I go to 'dpkg -i l

Re: I missed the kernel-image to linux-image thing!

2006-03-07 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Patrick Wiseman wrote: > I guess I missed something in the weekly update of my testing system. I > needed to recompile my 2.4.27 kernel (because USB mass storage suddenly > broke, on which I'll post seperately if I can't figure it out). So, I go to > 'dpkg -i linux-image-2.4.27_...' and it bails

Re: I missed the kernel-image to linux-image thing!

2006-03-07 Thread Paul Smith
%% "Patrick Wiseman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: pw> I'm sure there was some good reason for the change Indeed: "kernel" is too generic a term. People are trying to create Debian distributions on a FreeBSD kernel, and Hurd microkernels, and Solaris kernels, etc., not just on the Linux kernel.

I missed the kernel-image to linux-image thing!

2006-03-07 Thread Patrick Wiseman
I guess I missed something in the weekly update of my testing system.  I needed to recompile my 2.4.27 kernel (because USB mass storage suddenly broke, on which I'll post seperately if I can't figure it out).  So, I go to 'dpkg -i linux-image-2.4.27_...' and it bails because installation will overw