I’m looking to migrate to Debian 8 Jessie and new Xen. I see that there two xen-linux-system-* packages available in Jessie:
- xen-linux-system-3.16.0-4-amd64
- xen-linux-system-amd64
I have installed them, one at the time, and both install Xen Hypervisor version 4.4.1. What is the difference between them?
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Answer
xen-linux-system-amd64 will just be a dependency on the latest version in the distribution, which is currently xen-linux-system-3.16.0-4-amd64. Should a newer version be introduced at some point, xen-linux-system-amd64 will have a dependency on that version instead. If you want to stay on the old, specific version, install the 3.16.0-4 package instead. This paradigm is common in the Debian package system.