On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 09:36:14PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Wednesday 09 May 2007 21:05, Phillip Pi wrote: > > Is this what you meant by same package version? > > No, that only shows the package name. The package version is shown by for > example 'dpkg -l linux-image-2.6.18-4-k7', or 'aptitude show'.
FYI before the reboot: $ uname -a Linux ANTian 2.6.18-4-k7 #1 SMP Wed Apr 18 10:37:40 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux $ dpkg -l linux-image-2.6.18-4-k7 Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-====================-====================-======================================================== ii linux-image-2.6.18-4 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12etch Linux 2.6.18 image on AMD K7 $ aptitude show linux-image-2.6.18-4-k7 Package: linux-image-2.6.18-4-k7 New: yes State: installed Automatically installed: no Version: 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12etch1 Priority: optional Section: admin Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team <[email protected]> Uncompressed Size: 48.8M Depends: module-init-tools (>= 0.9.13), coreutils (>= 5.96), initramfs-tools (>= 0.55) | yaird (>= 0.0.12-8) | linux-initramfs-tool PreDepends: debconf (>= 0.2.17) | debconf-2.0 Recommends: libc6-i686 Suggests: linux-doc-2.6.18, grub (>= 0.97-3) | lilo (>= 19.1) Conflicts: grub (<= 0.95+cvs20040624-17), initramfs-tools (< 0.55), yaird (< 0.0.12-8) Provides: linux-image, linux-image-2.6, linux-modules-2.6.18-4-k7 Description: Linux 2.6.18 image on AMD K7 This package provides the binary image and pre-built loadable modules for Linux kernel 2.6.18 on 32bit AMD Duron/Athlon/AthlonXP machines. $ apt-cache show linux-image-2.6.18-4-k7 Package: linux-image-2.6.18-4-k7 Priority: optional Section: admin Installed-Size: 47704 Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team <[email protected]> Architecture: i386 Source: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12etch1 Provides: linux-image, linux-image-2.6, linux-modules-2.6.18-4-k7 Depends: module-init-tools (>= 0.9.13), coreutils (>= 5.96), initramfs-tools (>= 0.55) | yaird (>= 0.0.12-8) | linux-initramfs-tool Pre-Depends: debconf (>= 0.2.17) | debconf-2.0 Recommends: libc6-i686 Suggests: linux-doc-2.6.18, grub (>= 0.97-3) | lilo (>= 19.1) Conflicts: grub (<= 0.95+cvs20040624-17), initramfs-tools (<< 0.55), yaird (<< 0.0.12-8) Filename: pool/updates/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-image-2.6.18-4-k7_2.6.18.dfsg.1-12etch1_i386.deb Size: 16451984 MD5sum: 15064d65c1234008e0462c54d0ca732e SHA1: f722ddd6285ef987bd9e4e267ca36bd47949bc5b SHA256: 9d072b75f28f1fcf19b8734a16647dc2f96d1d6a3874b176d237f3c0d49a1f1c Description: Linux 2.6.18 image on AMD K7 This package provides the binary image and pre-built loadable modules for Linux kernel 2.6.18 on 32bit AMD Duron/Athlon/AthlonXP machines. Package: linux-image-2.6.18-4-k7 Priority: optional Section: admin Installed-Size: 49484 Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team <[email protected]> Architecture: i386 Source: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12 Provides: linux-image, linux-image-2.6, linux-modules-2.6.18-4-k7 Depends: module-init-tools (>= 0.9.13), coreutils (>= 5.96), initramfs-tools (>= 0.55) | yaird (>= 0.0.12-8) | linux-initramfs-tool Pre-Depends: debconf (>= 0.2.17) | debconf-2.0 Recommends: libc6-i686 Suggests: linux-doc-2.6.18, grub (>= 0.97-3) | lilo (>= 19.1) Conflicts: grub (<= 0.95+cvs20040624-17), initramfs-tools (<< 0.55), yaird (<< 0.0.12-8) Filename: pool/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-image-2.6.18-4-k7_2.6.18.dfsg.1-12_i386.deb Size: 16452360 MD5sum: ebcc9a853552567b979ab7daa33c2d23 SHA1: 652a67facbc134f9dc34258ae734d20f19ec2496 SHA256: 5d1d1a32cde33ca574055c12423d9752683c628073adf8f3afeaed52a2c2c2da Description: Linux 2.6.18 image on AMD K7 This package provides the binary image and pre-built loadable modules for Linux kernel 2.6.18 on 32bit AMD Duron/Athlon/AthlonXP machines. How come none of this show dates and times? Like when released, compiled, etc. I did comparisions with my uname -a's date and my /boot: $ ls -all /boot total 6339 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 May 9 11:06 . drwxr-xr-x 26 root root 1024 May 9 11:06 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 720490 Dec 10 17:36 System.map-2.6.18-3-k7 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 722453 Apr 18 08:38 System.map-2.6.18-4-k7 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 71347 Dec 10 10:50 config-2.6.18-3-k7 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 70797 Apr 18 02:04 config-2.6.18-4-k7 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 May 9 11:06 grub -rw------- 1 root root 1137172 Dec 21 13:22 initrd.img-2.6.18-3-k7 -rw------- 1 root root 1191645 May 9 11:06 initrd.img-2.6.18-4-k7 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1267064 Dec 10 17:36 vmlinuz-2.6.18-3-k7 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1268572 Apr 18 08:38 vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-k7 They seem to match. > It seems to me that rebooting once would be safer. Then you'll also know > that it does work... I will reboot later when I get home. 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