James Miller wrote:
[...]
On
the Synaptic issue: you are undoubtedly aware that Synaptic is a
graphical frontend for apt, I suppose?
Actually, no. I always use apt from the command line so I missed this
front end. oops.
[...]
I really didn't want an
updated kernel since I run vmware and have to recompile modules for it
every time a new kernel comes along, and I'm not entirely sure how I got
the kernel. I've looked at packages on the system and can't see where
new 2.6.x kernels are supposed to be part of my dist-upgrade, but that's
another issue.
How did you install the kernel? That is, did you install the general 2.6
package for your architecture (kernel-image-2.6-386, for example) or did
you install a specific kernel minor version (for example,
kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386)?
If you did it the first way, that's why you are getting the updates ...
every time a new kernel package is introduced, the general packages
(which Debian calls "transition" packages for reasons I do not know) are
updated to point to the new version. So apt-get dist-upgrade (maybe even
an apt-get upgrade) will upgrade this package just like any other.
If you did it the second way, it should not be happening (at least the
way I understand the apt-get [dist-]upgrade process to work) except when
a new version of that specific kernel is introduced, so I can't be of help.
If the question doesn't mean anything to you, do an "apt-cache search
kernel-image-2.6" and look at some of the package descriptions for the
packages it lists.
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