Re: linux-image backports metapackage

My use case is:

Run the up-to-date backports kernel and always have the up-to-date stable
kernel as fallback installed, since the backports kernel sometimes changes
drastically and is not as tested as the stable kernel. The thing is: it's
nice to have the new features of the bpo kernel but in the end, I need to
work: run bpo-kernel -> nice -> upgrade with problems -> doesn't matter,
reboot, stable kernel -> keep on working.

I don't think the "you can run only one kernel, so why have more than one
installed?" argument does not hold, because I think it's good practice to
keep the last kernel installed as a fallback as well. Yes, I run only one,
but I have two installed anyway, so why not four?

Am Sa., 1. Juni 2024 um 22:21 Uhr schrieb Michael Tokarev <[email protected]>:

> 01.06.2024 14:34, Johan Kröckel wrote:
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > I think I asked this before but I'd like to have both the current stable
> and backports kernels installed.
> >
> > When I upgrade linux-image-amd64 to the backports version the stable
> kernel is not upgraded anymore. When I just install the current backports
> package
> > directly, like linux-image-6.7.12+bpo-amd64, it stays at that version.
> >
> > I think (not sure anymore) Ubuntu-backports uses a meta-package
> like linux-image-amd64-bookworm-backports.
>
> This isn't really practical.
>
> You can only run one kernel, you can't run two or more.
>
> You can install single version of bpo kernel, for example, to check
> something, ie,
> temporarily - this is when you install particular version of it.  After
> checking,
> you either remove it and stay with stable/bookworm kernel, or you install
> linux-image-amd64 from bpo, - this way you'll stay current with backports.
>
> Or you install linux-image-amd64 from backports directly, and start
> following backports
> kernel from now on.
>
> There's no two lines of the kernel, there's just one.
>
> /mjt
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