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chickenPie4tea

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Registered: 2012-08-21

Posts: 309

[SOLVED]how to stop kernel being upgraded

I have an oldish laptop (Acer TravelMate 2410)
I was surpised that Arch installed and works fine as it has a much younger kernel than the Debain system I also have on this laptop
(kernal 3.2)
Since it's working well I would prefer not to have it changed.
Does the kernel get upgraded when you upgrade your system with pacman -Syu
If yes how to I stop it - would the below work and what would I put for the kernal name
IgnorePkg=

Last edited by chickenPie4tea (2014-03-29 12:19:22)

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Gcool

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Registered: 2011-08-16

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Re: [SOLVED]how to stop kernel being upgraded

Read all about it here.

To skip just the kernel from being upgraded, the packagename would simply be "linux".

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Sanne

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Registered: 2012-03-13

Posts: 87

Re: [SOLVED]how to stop kernel being upgraded

You could also use the linux-lts kernel, might be safer/easier than not upgrading linux (and any external module packages) for a long time in a rolling distro. I have both kernels installed, linux and linux-lts, so I could boot the lts one if mainline stops working. Never needed that so far, though.

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chickenPie4tea

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Registered: 2012-08-21

Posts: 309

Re: [SOLVED]how to stop kernel being upgraded

Thanks I'll try the linux-lts option

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