Re: NBS removals of old kernels from stable -security and -updates pockets

2023-05-15 Thread Phil Roche
Confirming publicly that there has been an exception made for future gke and gkeop (Anthos on VMware) kernel header and module packages due to the GKE deployments being long-lived and often having older kernels installed. This issue with GKE specifically was reported publicly @ https://lists.ubunt

Re: NBS removals of old kernels from stable -security and -updates pockets

2023-05-12 Thread Louis Bouchard
Hello, Le 12/05/2023 à 17:24, Dimitri John Ledkov a écrit : On Fri, 12 May 2023 at 16:19, Steve Langasek wrote: On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 02:20:39PM +0200, Juerg Haefliger wrote: I am therefore intending that, for jammy and later releases, we start to prune NBS kernel packages on an ongoing bas

Re: NBS removals of old kernels from stable -security and -updates pockets

2023-05-12 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Fri, 12 May 2023 at 16:19, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 02:20:39PM +0200, Juerg Haefliger wrote: > > > I am therefore intending that, for jammy and later releases, we start to > > > prune NBS kernel packages on an ongoing basis, not just at EOL time. > > > We already have u

Re: NBS removals of old kernels from stable -security and -updates pockets

2023-05-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 02:20:39PM +0200, Juerg Haefliger wrote: > > I am therefore intending that, for jammy and later releases, we start to > > prune NBS kernel packages on an ongoing basis, not just at EOL time. > We already have users complaining on IRC about missing kernel packages... What,

Re: NBS removals of old kernels from stable -security and -updates pockets

2023-05-12 Thread Juerg Haefliger
On Tue, 25 Apr 2023 11:05:39 +0200 Steve Langasek wrote: > Hi folks, > > Kernel updates have an interesting property that, unlike most SRUs, the > binary package names change for each update, because the ABI is presumed to > change each time. > > The result of this is that each kernel update ca

NBS removals of old kernels from stable -security and -updates pockets

2023-04-25 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi folks, Kernel updates have an interesting property that, unlike most SRUs, the binary package names change for each update, because the ABI is presumed to change each time. The result of this is that each kernel update causes the binary packages from the previous version to become "NBS" (not b