Upgrades, kernel removal and last-good-boot

[Michael Vogt]

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 12:59:23PM +0100, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 04:50:17PM -0000, Michael Vogt wrote:
> > Changes: 
> >  apt (0.7.14ubuntu6) intrepid; urgency=low
> >  .
> >    * debian/apt.conf.autoremove:
> >      - remove "linux-image" (and friends) from the auto-remove
> >        blacklist. we have the kernel fallback infrastructure now
> >        in intrepid (thanks to BenC)
> 
> Do we need to do anything further to ensure that this is safe for upgrades
> from Hardy?  Will the system always have its old kernel saved in
> last-good-boot before it's removed?
 
Update-manager will not remove the current running kernel on upgrade
(as a safety feature) from one dist to the other, so that should be
fine.

Cheers,
 Michael