Re: How to install several kernels on Debian
Tzafrir Cohen <[email protected]>
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On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 04:20:42PM +0200, geoffrey mendelson wrote: > On 12/15/2015 3:12 PM, Boris Shtrasman wrote: > > > >I did a minor test on a amd64 arch again , setting up only wheezy and stable/updates > > > > > I recently install Ubuntu 15.10 on a system amd64 arch, and it installed > vmlinuz-4.2.0-16-generic as the kernel. I later ran software update and it > installed vmlinuz-4.2.0-19-generic, but kept the older kernel. > > > I will admit Ubuntu is not debian, but the package tools provided by debian > are used by it. Ubuntu bumps the kernel revision (and hence change the name of the kernel packagee) on practically every kernel upgrade. Debian does its best to maintain the same kernel revision (and try to guarantee a stable ABI to kernel modules). Thus same tools but different policy. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzafrir-/[email protected] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [email protected] | | best [email protected] | | friend _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il