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 > -- > GPG Key transition (from rsa2048 to rsa4096) since 2024-04-24. > New key: rsa4096/61AD3D98ECDF2C8E 9D8B E14E 3F2A 9DD7 9199 28F1 61AD > 3D98 ECDF 2C8E > Old key: rsa2048/457CE0A0804465C5 6EE1 95D1 886E 8FFB 810D 4324 457C > E0A0 8044 65C5 > Transition statement: http://www.corpit.ru/mjt/gpg-transition-2024.txt > >
