On 2016-10-12 10:45 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: >>> AFAICT, the latest amd64 kernel in Debian x86 testing is still 3.16 >>> (i.e. the one from Debian stable). >>> Any idea why there's no newer one? >> Since linux 4.0, the -amd64 kernel flavor is no longer built on i386: > > Hmm... that's what I thought. > >> To install the -amd64 kernel via multiarch, run these commands: >> >> # dpkg --add-architecture amd64 >> # apt-get update >> # apt-get install linux-image-amd64:amd64 > > Thanks. It's kind of silly to have to download the complete list of amd64 > packages, but I can live with it.
It certainly slows down apt operations somewhat, also all packages show up twice in aptitude's TUI which is a bit annoying. > And I guess I can --remove-architecture right after that so I don't keep > downloading/updating the list of amd64 packages all the time. No, dpkg refuses to remove an architecture as long as there are packages of that architecture installed. What you _can_ do, however, is to limit the architecture list to i386 in sources.list(5), e.g. deb [arch=i386] http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main Whether the bandwith save is worth the cost of not getting timely kernel upgrades is debatable, of course. Cheers, Sven
