[Discuss] Debian Question

[Rich Pieri]

On Thu, 2 Nov 2023 14:34:06 -0400
Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> wrote:

> 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.

Preventing new kernel installs is easy.
Create a file /etc/apt/preferences.d/kernel:

Package: linux-image*
Pin: release *
Pin-Priority: -1

Debian has several package notification tools in the official
repositories: apticron and painintheapt show up quickly. There may be
others.

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