[Discuss] Debian Question

[Kent Borg]

On 11/5/23 11:45, Kent Borg wrote:
> Thanks to CHRISTOP-PERRAULT at comcast.net, dsr at randomstring.org, and 
> richard.pieri at gmail.com. VERY valuable answers.
>
> But I'm holding off on implementing any of that, for the moment, until 
> I better understand what packages get updated when. Don't want to 
> block/freeze that wrong stuff.
>
> But I have updated my notes for when I am ready.


So recently a new Raspbian kernel came out, to make circumstances ripe 
for playing with preventing apt-get from upgrading my kernel.

I created the file /etc/apt/preferences.d/kernel exactly as Rich 
suggested, and that seems to work.

As for finding out when I should build a new kernel there was the 
question of how to tell me when a new kernel should be built. At the 
moment I have a decent habit of manually running apt-get pretty 
frequently, so I decided to add another manual step:

   cd ~/pi-linux
   git fetch --tags

And see whether there is a new stable tab from which to build. (The fact 
that I don't currently have the ability to send e-mail from that machine 
did enter in…)

Thanks,

-kb, the Kent who did a new kernel build early this week, it worked, it 
came back from a reboot, etc.//