On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 01:14:49PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote: > Adrian Bridgett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 05:09:27PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > > [snip] > > > > We really should have a policy for things like this. How about adding > > > > another Provides: to kernel images (built by the excellent make-kpkg): > > > > Because too many people don't use debian kernel images. > > > How about only making dependant packages "suggest" the appropriate kernel > > version? That gets around this problem. > > Or make it conflict with inappropriate versions? (Actually, this > would work better if kernel-image-2.0.xx provided the virtual package > kernel-image-2.0, etc., but whatever.)
No conflicts - you can install as many kernels as you like - you could have 2.0 and 2.2 installed and then boot between them :-) Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Avoid tiresome goat sacrifices -=- use Debian Linux http://www.debian.org
