How to keep kernel from upgrade?

[aries]

So just "echo linux-image-generic" | dpkg --set-selections will do the
trick?  Thanks , that's the way i need , the ubuntu way.

2007/10/19, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>:
>
> Andrew Glen-Young wrote:
>
> > On 19/10/2007, aries <aries1998 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I use make-kpkg to create a kernel deb called
> >> linux-image-2.6.22.14-digiman , and install it use the dpkg .
> >> Now the menu.lst have two kernel entries: linux-2.6.22-14-generic  and
> >> linux-image-2.6.22.14-digiman
> >>
> >> what i mean is just preventing linux-image/linux-header from upgrade,
> >> unless i do it manually(with dpkg) but not apt-get .
> >>
> >
> > I think what you want is known as 'apt-pinning'. Check the
> > apt_preferences(5) man page to show you how to do this.
> >
> > Whether this is a good idea is left up to you ;-)
>
> Heavens, no.  That's serious overkill.
>
> Basically, kernel images are upgraded without being removed by two
> processes:
>
> 1) The package linux-image-generic has it's dependencies changed so that
> it
> now relies on the newest kernel image;
>
> 2) /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01ubuntu specifically prevents autoremoval of the
> no-longer-depended old kernel
>
> So the simple way to prevent upgrading the kernel is to either "hold"
> linux-image-generic, or to remove it (note, if you remove it, you'll lose
> the *-desktop package, thus potentially breaking future upgrades).
> --
> derek
>
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