Re: Multiple installed kernel-image packages?

2004-12-30 Thread CW Harris
Putting this back to the list... On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 04:33:43PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 12:45:09PM -0700, CW Harris wrote: On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 12:31:33PM -0700, CW Harris wrote: On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 12:33:14PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: On Wed, Dec

Re: Multiple installed kernel-image packages?

2004-12-29 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi Paul, Paul Gear wrote: Thanks for the detailed response. Are you saying that once my system is installed (on 2.6.8, as it happens), it will never get an upgrade to 2.6.9 (once it is released) unless i explicitly install it? Does the fact that i asked for kernel-image-2.6-686 have any

Re: Multiple installed kernel-image packages?

2004-12-29 Thread CW Harris
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 11:30:15PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 11:08:19PM -0500, Adam Aube wrote: Paul Gear wrote: [snip nested attributions, correctly I hope] Thanks for the detailed response. Are you saying that once my system is installed (on 2.6.8, as it

Re: Multiple installed kernel-image packages?

2004-12-29 Thread William Ballard
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 10:19:23AM -0700, CW Harris wrote: There are source packages kernel-latest-{version}-{arch}. Is this what you are looking for? (E.g. kernel-latest-2.6-i386) Do you mean kernel-source-2.6? There are no packages named kernel-latest-* in the repository. However it looks

Re: Multiple installed kernel-image packages?

2004-12-29 Thread CW Harris
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 12:33:14PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 10:19:23AM -0700, CW Harris wrote: There are source packages kernel-latest-{version}-{arch}. Is this what you are looking for? (E.g. kernel-latest-2.6-i386) Do you mean kernel-source-2.6? No.

Re: Multiple installed kernel-image packages?

2004-12-29 Thread CW Harris
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 12:31:33PM -0700, CW Harris wrote: On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 12:33:14PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 10:19:23AM -0700, CW Harris wrote: There are source packages kernel-latest-{version}-{arch}. Is this what you are looking for? (E.g.

Multiple installed kernel-image packages?

2004-12-28 Thread Paul Gear
Hi folks, A quick question: is there a way to get apt to install new kernel-image packages rather than upgrade them, and keep the existing kernel-image package installed as well? Back on Red Hat, i could 'rpm -iv' (install) a new kernel package rather than 'rpm -Uv' (upgrade), and it would

Re: Multiple installed kernel-image packages?

2004-12-28 Thread Alan Chandler
On Tuesday 28 December 2004 13:15, Paul Gear wrote: Hi folks, A quick question: is there a way to get apt to install new kernel-image packages rather than upgrade them, and keep the existing kernel-image package installed as well? I'm using grub, and debian puts in an entry for every

Re: Multiple installed kernel-image packages?

2004-12-28 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi Paul, Paul Gear wrote: A quick question: is there a way to get apt to install new kernel-image packages rather than upgrade them, and keep the existing kernel-image package installed as well? Back on Red Hat, i could 'rpm -iv' (install) a new kernel package rather than 'rpm -Uv'

Re: Multiple installed kernel-image packages?

2004-12-28 Thread Paul Gear
Kevin B. McCarty wrote: ... A quick question: is there a way to get apt to install new kernel-image packages rather than upgrade them, and keep the existing kernel-image package installed as well? ... If you are asking whether you can install (for instance) kernel 2.6.8, kernel 2.6.9, and kernel

Re: Multiple installed kernel-image packages?

2004-12-28 Thread Adam Aube
Paul Gear wrote: Kevin B. McCarty wrote: Paul Gear wrote: A quick question: is there a way to get apt to install new kernel-image packages rather than upgrade them, and keep the existing kernel-image package installed as well? ... If you are asking whether you can install (for instance)

Re: Multiple installed kernel-image packages?

2004-12-28 Thread William Ballard
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 11:08:19PM -0500, Adam Aube wrote: Paul Gear wrote: [snip nested attributions, correctly I hope] Thanks for the detailed response. Are you saying that once my system is installed (on 2.6.8, as it happens), it will never get an upgrade to 2.6.9 (once it is released)