Package update-kernel: Information

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Source package: update-kernel
Version: 0.9.14-alt1
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Build time:  Jun 5, 2019, 04:54 PM in the task #231538
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License: GPL
Summary: Update kernel and modules
Description: 
This package contains a script to conveniently update
kernel and modules.

It works by installing a new package set along with existing kernel
so that you don't end up without a kernel guaranteed to boot (your
good old one); by default, it will look for the most recent package
of the same flavour (e.g. "std-def") and try to install all the same
modules as already installed for that.

See also:
http://lists.altlinux.org/pipermail/community/2005-November/366618.html
http://lists.altlinux.org/pipermail/sisyphus/2006-November/192226.html

List of rpms provided by this srpm:
update-kernel (noarch)

Maintainer: Ivan Zakharyaschev



Last changed


June 5, 2019 Ivan Zakharyaschev 0.9.14-alt1
- update-kernel: fixed in the presence of disttags in package IDs
  printed by APT (apt-cache pkgnames).
May 28, 2019 Ivan Zakharyaschev 0.9.13-alt1
- remove-old-kernels: APT invocation (to remove installed pkgs) rewritten in
  a more portable way. (A preparation for APT with support for disttags.)
May 15, 2019 Ivan Zakharyaschev 0.9.12-alt1
- APT invocation (to install the modules) rewritten in a more robust way.
  (A preparation for APT with support for disttags.)