On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 8:51 AM, The Wanderer <wande...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > On 05/29/2014 07:49 AM, Horatio Leragon wrote: >> >> During installation of Debian 7.5, one is prompted to install either >> >> linux-image-3.2.0.4-amd64 >> or >> linux-image-amd64 >> >> There is no context-sensitive help menu on that page. >> >> Could someone tell me what the differences between those two are and >> which is the better of the two? > > To repeat what other people have said, with a bit more detail (which may > or may not be helpful): > > linux-image-3.2.0.4-amd64 installs version 3.2.0.4 of the Linux kernel, > compiled for the AMD64 architecture. If you install this package, your > package manager will automatically pull in updates to newer versions of > the 3.2.0.4 kernel, but will not pull in version 3.3 or newer when that > becomes available from the repositories. > > linux-image-amd64 depends on whatever the latest-in-Debian AMD64 version > of the Linux kernel is. If you install this package from Debian stable, > you will currently get kernel 3.2.0.4, but when version 3.3 or newer > becomes available from the repositories your package manager will > automatically pull in that version instead.
The upgrade to 3.3 (or 3.x) would take place on Debian testing or unstable. For Debian stable, you'd stay on 3.2, unless you have stable-backports enabled. If you have stable-backports enabled, linux-image-amd64 will pull in 3.14 (at the moment) but, given that the stable-backports archive is set to "NotAutomatic: yes" and "ButAutomaticUpgrades: yes" by default, you'd first have to install the stable-backports version of linux-image-amd64 for the dependency to take effect. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=swoce9hk4vzztxb5zcve5_+zptghusccyrsa3j+66h...@mail.gmail.com
