[Discuss] Debian Question

[dsr at randomstring.org (Dan Ritter)]

Kent Borg wrote: 
> Actually a "Raspbian" question, but I think it amounts to much the same: I
> have an OS installation, that came with all the usual stuff, and I have
> added more stuff, as one does. One of the things I have done is compile my
> own kernel. At some point there will be a kernel update, that I won't want,
> instead I will likely want to compile a new kernel from updated sources.
> 
> What is the best way to manage this? I don't want to accidentally install
> the standard kernel on top of my custom kernel, but I would like to be
> prodded to compile a new kernel by the availability of a new kernel .deb.


Pin the kernel version in /etc/apt/preferences.d/

Install apticron and configure so that new updates are downloaded
but not installed, and you get notifications of all of them.

-dsr-