Re: Repost-No Response-Fwd: Another APT Issue-Where Are The Linux-Images-SOLVED

On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 02:49:50PM -0700, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:


--- Wackojacko <wackojacko32@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
This should be an easy one but still no replys.
Please
someone help me out on this.

--- Leonard Chatagnier <lenc5570@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:10:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: Leonard Chatagnier <lenc5570@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Another APT Issue-Where Are The
Linux-Images
To: debian-user <debian-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I now have only 2.6.8 and 2.6.16 kernels in my
cache
file, while a short time ago I had from
2.4.18-bf2.4
to 2.6.16 and everything in between. Aptitude
removed
a working installed 2.6.15 linux-image before I
could
blink and I would like to reinstall it but its
not
there. I did do an autoclean but didn't think
that
would remove all the linux-images and leave just
the
2.6.8 and 2.6.16 in the cache. Would appreciate
anyone
telling me how to get all the kernel/linux-images
back
int my cache files so I can pick the one I want
instaled. Plz copy my email-not subscribed.

Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570@xxxxxxxxxxxxx



Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

You dont say what version of debian you are running
but I assume its sid
as this is the only one that has 2.6.16 at the
moment. It would appear
you have installed some sort of meta package that
will always depend on
the latest kernel so it has correctly upgraded you
to 2.6.16.

I am using unstable but have not installed any meta
packages envolving kernel or linux-images. dpkg -l |
grep meta only shows metas for xorg, kde's, exim4,
some libs and some wms. I have installed myself the
2.6.8-2-686, 2.6.15-1-686 and 2.6.16-1.686 images;
aptitude auto-rmed the 2.6.15 kernel and left the
other 2 in place.

The aptitude autoclean will have removed the old
debs because they are
no longer available in the unstable repository,
which I assume is all
you have in your sources.list.

Currently, yes. But, I did add etch back in and
updated but no kernels except 2.6.8 and 2.6.16 and
those metas you refered to. I'll add sarge and etch
back in sources.list and retry just to be sure.

Try adding the testing repositories into your
sources list (copy your
existing lines for unstable/sid and change to
testing/etch) then do

#aptitude update
#aptitude search linux-image-2.6.15
#aptitude install
linux-image-2.6.15-whatever-version-you-want

Roger

You may also consider removing the generic meta
package that caused this
kernel upgrade in the first place. It will probably
be called something
like *linux-image-2.6-your-arch*.

I looked real hard with wajig search, list, show and
could not find any "linux-image-2.6-i???" packages
installed. I know I didn't install one intentionally.
Well, surprised me this time after adding etch back in
again one more time and updating I found the 2.6.15
images with wajig search kernel image but not with
linux-image. did the 2.6.12 images go to stable as I
don't see it in the listing. AAMF, I only see 2.4.27,
2.6.8, 2.6.15 and 2.6.16 images and I think there are
many more than those listed. Anyway, issue solved for
now. Thanks Wackojacko for your help.

Looks like you still want a mechanism for keeping specific versions of
specific packages in cache.
What I do is copy the .debs elsewhere, such as /usr/local/debs/
That way they stay around, at the cost of some duplicaiton.

Hmmm. Maybe a hard-link from /usr/local/debs/ to the .deb in tha cache?
That way when the cache file is deleted, the hard-link will still keep
that file intact. But then you might want to use something likd
/var/local/debs/ so that keep-directory resides on the same file-system
as the target of the hard-links. Soft-links (which cross file-systems)
won't work for this.

-- hendrik


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