On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 07:07:16PM +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > Package: initramfs-tools > Version: 0.93.4 > Severity: normal > File: /usr/sbin/update-initramfs > > Hi, > > update-initramfs considers linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-amd64 to be newer > than linux-image-2.6.32-3-amd64 causing the initrd of an outdated kernel > to be updated. > Even though the 2.6.32-trunk kernels are no longer available in the > archive, they are probably installed on some machines tracking sid or > squeeze and are not going to be removed automatically (that is a good > thing), so they will continue to confuse update-initramfs unless they > are uninstalled manually. From popcon I got the following counts: > > $ zgrep image-2.6.32-trunk all-popcon-results.txt.gz | sort -nr -k 3 > Package: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 4075 756 313 7 > Package: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-amd64 2907 611 200 6 > > So there seems to be a significant amount of machines having them > still installed (only looking at the main variants amd64 and 686). > > See also bugs #568160 and #570318 covering grub-legacy/grub2 to wrongly > sort the -trunk kernel ahead of the newer kernels. > > > Andreas
dpkg asses it to be greater than numbered, just see get_sorted_versions() uses dpkg --compare-versions. trunk is gone and was a mistake in the first place. people will get over it with 2.6.33 or whatever.. unless someone comes up with clean noninvasive patch i'll close away. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100324181239.gn22...@baikonur.stro.at
