Re: dist-upgrade removing current kernel

2006-12-12 Thread Chris Lale
Paul Yeatman wrote: Hi, I did some searching on this in the archive and found some stuff but nothing that fully satisfies me. When a new minor 2.6 kernel revision, 2.6.17, was available for Etch, an "aptitude dist-upgrade" wanted to install this new kernel AND remove my 2.6.16 kernel revision (w

Re: dist-upgrade removing current kernel

2006-12-11 Thread Wayne Topa
Paul Yeatman([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hi, I did some searching on this in the archive and found some stuff > but nothing that fully satisfies me. When a new minor 2.6 kernel > revision, 2.6.17, was available for Etch, an "aptitude dist-upgrade" > wanted to install this new ke

Re: dist-upgrade removing current kernel

2006-12-11 Thread Paul Yeatman
->>In response to your message<<- --received from Andrew Sackville-West-- > > On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 11:24:44AM -0800, Paul Yeatman wrote: > > I'm perfectly happy with the > > package manager leaving my currently installed kernels alone while > > simultaneously adding newer kernel versions and

Re: dist-upgrade removing current kernel

2006-12-11 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 11:24:44AM -0800, Paul Yeatman wrote: > I'm perfectly happy with the > package manager leaving my currently installed kernels alone while > simultaneously adding newer kernel versions and releases. If I want to > remove old kernels at some point, I'll do so explicitely. A

dist-upgrade removing current kernel

2006-12-11 Thread Paul Yeatman
Hi, I did some searching on this in the archive and found some stuff but nothing that fully satisfies me. When a new minor 2.6 kernel revision, 2.6.17, was available for Etch, an "aptitude dist-upgrade" wanted to install this new kernel AND remove my 2.6.16 kernel revision (which understandably wa