Re: linux-image backports metapackage

02.06.2024 01:40, Johan Kröckel wrote:
> 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.

So if there's an issue with bpo kernel (bpo is what you usually use), you switch back to
the previously running bpo kernel which worked.  Problem solved.

> 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?

Apt only keeps 2.

/mjt