Disabling only kernel backports?

Hi there, I was I wondering if the Debian Backports repo is necessary for OMV functionality, and how it got enabled on my system.

I didn't realize that Debian Backports also offered a much newer kernel (currently 5.10). For the ancient armel hardware that I'm running on I don't think I want the latest kernel. But I imagine that OMV needs some newer packages from Backports? I don't recall ever explicitly enabling Backports, so it looks like it came by default when I installed OMV on top of the fresh vanilla Debian installation, as the repo file is named /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openmediavault-kernel-backports.list . This appears to be a misnomer, as it points to a normal Debian Buster Backports repo that contains lots of other packages, not just kernel updates.

deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian buster-backports main contrib non-free

BTW in OMV Update Management Settings I don't have Pre-release or Community updates enabled, but I'm not sure if that refers to just OMV packages or Debian packages.

So is there a GUI way to disable the Backports? Or are they required for OMV? Is there an easy way to make OMV ignore the kernel updates? I know I could simply not install them in the OMV Update section, but I don't want to accidentally install them without thinking some day when applying all updates. I'm also familiar with APT pinning and all that, but I really don't like to mess with it.

Thanks a lot!

Hi ryecoaaron thanks a lot for the fast and clear reply.

Zitat von ryecoaaron

You shouldn't get the 5.10 kernel since most arm systems require a very specific kernel instead of the general Debian kernel.

Right, it's not the generic kernel, it's offering me linux-image-5.10.0-0.bpo.5-marvell 5.10.24-1~bpo10+1 , which is the correct arch for my processor.

Thanks for the tip about OMV Extras, that did the trick to disable Backports.