• Bug#925379: linux-base: linux-version vmlinuz/vmlinux dichotomy, br

    From John David Anglin@21:1/5 to John Paul Adrian Glaubitz on Sun Mar 24 14:10:01 2019
    On 2019-03-24 3:04 a.m., John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
    Some time between 4.1.0-2 and 4.19.0-3, m68k kernels switched
    from vmlinuz-* to vmlinux-*:
    I think on hppa, we switched the other way around. Putting in
    debian-hppa@ into the loop.
    Yes, Helge updated palo and switched to building compressed kernels on hppa.  I guess
    vmlinuz is supposed to be used with a compressed kernel.  Doing "make zinstall" updates
    the links vmlinuz and vmlinuz.old and "make install" updates vmlinux and vmlinux.old.
    Which kernel actually boots depends on the config installed by palo.  I have one system
    still using vmlinux.  The others use vmlinuz.

    I install a lot of custom kernels and I usually also have one Debian kernel installed as well.
    initramfs-tools almost always gets the ram file syste links wrong.  So, I have to manually
    update the links every time there is an update.

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    John David Anglin [email protected]

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