On 8/12/23 09:35, Antony Stone wrote:
> On Saturday 12 August 2023 at 15:14:51, Ken Dibble wrote:
>
>> Backstory:
>>
>> Upgraded to kernel image 5.10.0-25 (5.10.179-5) from 5.10.0-23
>> (5.10.179-3).
> Hm, I'm intrigued - where do you get the above version information from?
>
> On my Chimaera system, I get the following:
>
> Output of uname -a:
>
> Linux Zmachine 5.10.0-23-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.179-2 (2023-07-14)
> x86_64
> GNU/Linux
>

kdibble@thinkstation:~$ uname -a
Linux thinkstation 5.10.0-23-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.179-3 (2023-07-27)
x86_64 GNU/Linux

As you can see there is a 13 day difference.

> A (partial) result of aptitude upgrade shows me:
>
> Get: 1 http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-security/main amd64 linux-
> image-5.10.0-24-amd64 amd64 5.10.179-5 [55.6 MB]
>
> Unpacking linux-image-5.10.0-24-amd64 (5.10.179-5) ...
>
> Unpacking linux-image-amd64 (5.10.179-5) over (5.10.179-2) ...
>
>
> So, on my system, the current kernel 5.10.0.23 is coded 50.10.179-2
> and the
> new kernel 5.10.0-24 is coded 5.10.179-5
>
>
> Whereas you somehow see 5.10.179-5 as kernel 5.10.0-25.
>
> Where do you get that from?


Apparently I am blind or misread or mis-typed  something.

You are correct 5.10.179-5 is 5.10.0-24

Although this is an error is my post, the underlying issue remains the same.


>
>
> Also, if I want to get the source for this new kernel 5.10.0-24:
>
>
> # apt-get source linux-image-5.10.0-24-amd64
> Reading package lists... Done
> Picking 'linux-signed-amd64' as source package instead of 'linux-
> image-5.10.0-24-amd64'
> NOTICE: 'linux-signed-amd64' packaging is maintained in the 'Git' version
> control system at:
> https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux.git
> Please use:
> git clone https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux.git
> to retrieve the latest (possibly unreleased) updates to the package.
> Need to get 2,858 kB of source archives.
> Get:1 http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-security/main
> linux-signed-amd64
> 5.10.179+5 (dsc) [8,609 B]
> Get:2 http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-security/main
> linux-signed-amd64
> 5.10.179+5 (tar) [2,849 kB]
> Fetched 2,858 kB in 1s (2,582 kB/s)
> dpkg-source: info: extracting linux-signed-amd64 in linux-signed-
> amd64-5.10.179+5
> dpkg-source: info: unpacking linux-signed-amd64_5.10.179+5.tar.xz
>
>
> Antony.
Again the problem was not getting the current kernel source, but the
previous version.


Regards,

Ken