Instructions on how to handle kernel upgrades

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 04:17:14PM +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:

> I'm not yet sure that the basic depends / replaces / conflicts machinery 
> covers the functionality we need, but for the moment it's all we have.

They certainly don't; for one, we need to ensure that the currently running
kernel is not removed.  Currently, the kernel packages do this with a scary,
unintuitive prompt in their prerm script, I believe.  Ideally, I think we
should probably avoid kernels being removed at all, unless the user
explicitly requests it via a system clean-up operation.

> Installing the metapackage for the moment would mean that new kernels do 
> get installed, and old kernels are not uninstalled, which is ok.

This is the case with apt-get and synaptic, but not with aptitude.  I'm not
sure if there is a way to fool aptitude into disabling this behaviour for
certain packages.

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 - mdz