How to install a non-default kernel?

[Torsten Schlabach]

 > Please inspect your software.log

I did. Obviously that packagename- thing does not work the way I thought 
it did. I though that FAI would compile a list of packages to install 
from all classes, i.e. whatever packages the next class wants will be 
added and packages which have a - after them will be taken off the list 
again.

But it seems that aptitude / install is called for every class separately.

So FAIBASE installes linux-image-486 which installs linux-image-2.6-486 
and linux-image-2.6.18-5-486.

In order to ever get rid of linux-image-2.6.18-5-486 again, that one 
(and not just linux-image-486) needs to be removed, i.e.:

in package_config/MYCLASS:

PACKAGES install

# VServer enabled kernel
linux-image-2.6.18-5-vserver-686
linux-image-2.6.18-5-486-

This will purge linux-image-2.6.18-5-486 (which had been actually 
physically installed before!) and install 
linux-image-2.6.18-5-vserver-686 instead.

Not all that elegant, but serves the purpose.

And this does indeed only work with PACKAGES install, not with PACKAGES 
aptitude, at least in MYCLASS. (I did not toch FAIBASE.)

Regards,
Torsten



Michael Tautschnig schrieb:
>>>Hmm, maybe aptitude doesn't quit do it; what happens if you use
>>>"PACKAGES install" instead of "PACKAGES aptitude"?
>>
>>Same result.
>>
>>This might need deeper debugging ...
>>
> 
> 
> Indeed... Please inspect your software.log for all occurrences of the
> linux-image packages, or they getting installed there at all, or accidentally by
> some other script?
> 
> Thanks,
> Michael
>