Re: Policy change ?

[Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>]

On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 09:21:53AM -0500, helices wrote:
> * Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> [2006:06:02:09:46:10-0400] scribed:
> > On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 10:53:58AM +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
> > > in earlier days apt-get dist-upgrade did automatically upgrade the kernel, 
> > > too.
> > > 
> > > This behavior is no more. When did this change ?
> > 
> > Install linux-image-2.6-cputype
> > 
> > It depends on the latest kernel.  In the past kernel-image-2.6-cputype
> > did this, but the name was changed.  The name changed as of 2.6.12.
> 
> I do NOT find this.  Where is it?
> 
>     # dpkg -l '*cputype*'
>     No packages found matching *cputype*.

cputype being: k8, k7, 686, 386, etc.

Ie I use: 
linux-image-2.6-686-smp on a P4 HT system
linux-image-2.6-k7 on an athlon xp
linux-image-2.6-amd64-k8 on an athlon64

Len Sorensen