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Post subject: stop automatic kernel headers installations?
 Posted: 20.10.2010, 15:46
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Hi, all,
New kernel headers want to be installed on nearly dist-upgrade I do. (For example, I'm running the 2.6.35-4.slh.15-aptosid-686 kernel at the moment, but linux-headers-2.6.35-7.slh.5-aptosid-686 wants to get installed this morning.)
Is there a way to disable all of these header installs until I request 'em?
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Post subject: RE: stop automatic kernel headers installations?
Posted: 20.10.2010, 16:01
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| apt-get purge linux-image-2.6-aptosid-i686 linux-headers-2.6-aptosid-i686 |
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Post subject: RE: stop automatic kernel headers installations?
Posted: 20.10.2010, 16:07
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slam
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Post subject: RE: stop automatic kernel headers installations?
Posted: 20.10.2010, 18:37
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mylo
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Post subject: RE: stop automatic kernel headers installations?
Posted: 20.10.2010, 22:42
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slam,
interesting! Are you willing to spend some minutes to detail/explain in some words what consequences, dis-/advantages this might/can have? This to understand or to see a more complete picture of header and kernel.
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Linux 3.1-6.slh.1-aptosid-amd64 x86_64[2010-03 Ἀπάτη (201012262151)]
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Post subject: RE: stop automatic kernel headers installations?
Posted: 21.10.2010, 09:07
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| I know when you remove the headers, some kernel modules can't be compiled anymore, so I everytime leave them where they are (And I need them for development purposes). |
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slam
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Post subject: RE: stop automatic kernel headers installations?
Posted: 21.10.2010, 09:54
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linux-image-2.6-aptosid-i686 is a meta-package, doing nothing else than installing the newest kernel with every dist-upgrade. linux-headers-2.6-aptosid-i686 does the same for the kernel headers. If your system runs without any extra compiled kernel modules, you do not need the headers. If you e.g. depend on proprietary graphics drivers from Nvidia or ATI, use Virtualbox, then you will need the headers.
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Post subject: RE: stop automatic kernel headers installations?
Posted: 21.10.2010, 16:00
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| Many of slh's tweaks give performance and security. I've chosen to remove these packages however, and monitor kernel changes here: http://svn.berlios.de/wsvn/fullstory/li ... /changelog and decide when to install manually. If a kernel patch is small and wouldn't affect anything on my machine I skip the upgrade. |
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Post subject: RE: stop automatic kernel headers installations?
Posted: 21.10.2010, 19:20
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slam,
thanks for the info. That makes the interconnections/relations inbetween understandable for me! |
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