On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt <p...@goldshmidt.org> wrote: > Yedidyah Bar David <linux...@didi.bardavid.org> writes: > >> On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt <p...@goldshmidt.org> wrote: >>> >>> this is something that Red Hat do without being asked >>> (they keep several versions, usually 3), so it is something that seems >>> natural to me. >> >> Generally, should work similarly in Debian. > > So what's the apt-get equivalent of yum install (as apt-get install is > similar to yum update)?
In a sense, you are right, but not in the way you intended: yum install will also update an installed package if an update is available. > >> This break due a specific different issue, not because Debian does not >> support this in general. > > I think that the root cause is that "apt-get install" updates rather > than installing together. > >> No idea about your specific issue. Did you try to also upgrade udev and >> initramfs-tools? > > Will my 3.2 keep working? I have no confidence in that. Again, I do not > want to "upgrade" anything - I want to switch between several kernels at > will. I also do not want to compile - I want stock Debian kernels. AFAICS wheezy had 3.2, jessie has 3.16. My laptop was upgraded from wheezy to jessie and has both kernels installed. IIRC I successfully booted the 3.2 one after the upgrade, didn't try that recently, as I have no need for that. Didn't check about udev and initramfs-tools. The kernel packages normally arrive with a kernel image, plus many modules. initramfs-tools is used to build an initrd image, which mainly includes the relevant modules. In principle, building such an initrd of the 3.2 kernel with jessie-updated tools is indeed risky. I am pretty certain that the above is almost identical in rhel/centos/fedora, except that upgrading there between releases is significantly different. -- Didi _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
