On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Ray Olszewski wrote: > At 12:55 PM 12/15/2003 -0600, James Miller wrote: > >Maybe one of the Debian users on this list can help me understand > >something about the kernels offered on the unstable branch. Specifically, > >I have a question about 2.4.x kernels. There are two 2.4.x kernels > >available there, and I'm trying to understand the difference between them. > >One is listed as kernel-image-2.4-(CPUarchitecture), while the other is > >listed as kernel-image-2.4.22-1-(CPUarchitecture). It's clear what the > >second one is, but what's the first in relation to it? Is it the 2.4.0 > >kernel? > > Try "apt-cache show" on one of the "kernel-image-2.4-(CPUarchitecture)" > packages. You'll see that the description says it is a wrapper package that > always points (via a dependency) to the corresponding > "kernel-image-2.4.*-*-(CPUarchitecture)" package (currently a > "kernel-image-2.4.22-1-(CPUarchitecture)" package). > Thanks for that tip, Ray, which I tried. I can see two possible reasons for a kernel "wrapper package" (poor as my grasp of what that means is): 1) something that maybe simplifies booting the system if you update 2.4.x kernels frequently (a symlink sort of thing that always points to the newest 2.4.x kernel image?); 2) something that could simplify updating kernels via apt-get (or 3] both of the above?). Can you offer any further input on whether 1 or 2 is correct, if I'm way off the mark in those guesses, or some of your own, more educated guesses?
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