New Kernel won't install on Dapper

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Fri Dec 30 02:57:07 UTC 2005


On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 06:01:15PM -0600, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:

> I haven't used apt-get on Ubuntu (so far, Synaptic has been
> "good enough" for me), but on another Linux distribution
> I use, 'apt-get dist-upgrade' *does* list the names of the
> packages which have been held back.

The kernel has had an ABI bump, which means it generates new binary 
packages. These need to be cleared through the NEW queue, but the person 
who does that is on holiday until the end of the week. Things should 
start working again in a few days.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org




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