[Bug 601192] Re: linux-image-virtual installs PAE kernel instead

[Andy Whitcroft]

For maverick the -virtual kernel is generated directly in its own right
so this cannot occur there, will close for development.

Looking at the lucid meta packages for the linux-image-virtual, we seem
to be linking to the right linux binary image package:

  Package: linux-image-virtual
  Architecture: i386 amd64
  Section: metapackages
  Priority: optional
  Depends: ${misc:Depends}, linux-image-${kernel-abi-version}-virtual, linux-firmware
  Description: Linux kernel image for virtual machines
   This package will always depend on the latest kernel image available
   for virtual machines.

Looking at the Lucid linux-image-xxx-virtual package it does indeed
contain the generic-pae binaries:

  $ dpkg -x linux-image-2.6.32-23-virtual_2.6.32-23.37_i386.deb LL
  $ ls LL/boot
  config-2.6.32-23-generic-pae      vmlinuz-2.6.32-23-generic-pae    System.map-2.6.32-23-generic-pae

This is also true in Karmic

  $ dpkg -x linux-image-2.6.31-22-virtual_2.6.31-22.60_i386.deb KK
  $ ls KK/boot
  config-2.6.31-22-generic-pae      vmlinuz-2.6.31-22-generic-pae    System.map-2.6.31-22-generic-pae

Back in Hardy we did include -virtual:

  $ dpkg -x linux-image-2.6.24-28-virtual_2.6.24-28.71_i386.deb HH
  $ ls HH/boot
  abi-2.6.24-28-virtual     System.map-2.6.24-28-virtual  config-2.6.24-28-virtual  vmlinuz-2.6.24-28-virtual

This is intential and due to the way in which the virtual packages are
generated.  In Hardy they were a complete separate flavour with their
own configuration.  For release Intrepid thorugh Lucid the virtual
flavour was generated from the server flavour (generic-pae for i386 in
Karmic and later).  For Maverick and later we are returning to
generating these as their own flavour.

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linux-image-virtual installs PAE kernel instead
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/601192
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