On Wed, 2018-10-24 at 16:30 +0200, Raphaël Halimi wrote: > Le 24/10/2018 à 14:15, Ben Hutchings a écrit : > > > When the kernel metapackage (linux-image-<arch>) is initially installed, > > > APT doesn't install recommended packages, and security.debian.org > > > repository is not configured yet, so the installer naturally fetches the > > > latest kernel from the core suite. After APT configuration, and other > > > repositories and suites are available, debian-installer runs an upgrade; > > > but if a newer version of linux-image-<arch> is found in one of those > > > newly available repositories (security.debian.org in this case), it's > > > not installed because APT refuses to install the recommended packages > > > (firware-linux-free, irqbalance) to satisfy dependencies, so the kernel > > > metapackage is kept back. > > > > I'm fairly sure it's the ABI bump in the kernel that prevents > > upgrading, not the recommended packages. This is tracked as #908711. > > You're right, it seems so obvious now. > > Sorry for the duplicate, I did search the web for "bugs debian-installer > kernel not upgraded during installation" but the title of this bug was > too different, and I missed it. > > Do you want me to close this one, or to merge it ?
I'll merge it. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid all together.
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