Re: Does "apt-get dist-upgrade" upgrade the kernel?

[godo <goran@dobosevic.com>]

On 2011-05-07 18:18, Camaleón wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm running wheezy and it's since weeks that I started wondering when a
> new kernel will come to testing :-)
>
> root@debian:~# cat /etc/issue
> Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid \n \l
>
> test@debian:~$ uname -r
> 2.6.32-5-686
>
> Now (by purely chance) I realized that there is indeed a new kernel
> available in the repositories so that this means it was me making some
> kind of mistake.
>
> root@debian:~# apt-cache search linux-image
> linux-headers-2.6.38-2-486 - Header files for Linux 2.6.38-2-486
> linux-headers-2.6.38-2-686 - Header files for Linux 2.6.38-2-686
> linux-headers-2.6.38-2-686-bigmem - Header files for Linux 2.6.38-2-686-bigmem
> linux-headers-2.6.38-2-amd64 - Header files for Linux 2.6.38-2-amd64
> linux-image-2.6.38-2-486 - Linux 2.6.38 for old PCs
> linux-image-2.6.38-2-686 - Linux 2.6.38 for modern PCs
> linux-image-2.6.38-2-686-bigmem - Linux 2.6.38 for PCs with 4GB+ RAM
> linux-image-2.6.38-2-686-bigmem-dbg - Debugging infos for Linux 2.6.38-2-686-bigmem
> linux-image-2.6.38-2-amd64 - Linux 2.6.38 for 64-bit PCs
> linux-image-2.6-486 - Linux 2.6 for old PCs (meta-package)
> linux-image-2.6-686 - Linux 2.6 for modern PCs (meta-package)
> linux-image-2.6-686-bigmem - Linux 2.6 for PCs with 4GB+ RAM (meta-package)
> linux-image-2.6-amd64 - Linux 2.6 for 64-bit PCs (meta-package)
> linux-image-486 - Linux for old PCs (meta-package)
> linux-image-686 - Linux for modern PCs (meta-package)
> linux-image-686-bigmem - Linux for PCs with 4GB+ RAM (meta-package)
> linux-image-amd64 - Linux for 64-bit PCs (meta-package)
> alsa-base - Archivos de configuración del controlador de ALSA
> linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 - Linux 2.6.32 for modern PCs
> linux-headers-2.6.32-5-686 - Header files for Linux 2.6.32-5-686
>
> I use to upgrade the machine with this command:
>
> apt-get update&&  apt-get -V dist-upgrade
>
> Should I have been using another one that automatically triggered the new
> kernel? Or is that kernel needs to be manually pulled? :-?
>
> Greetings,
Hi,
whenever I power on my boxes firs I go in single user mod and apt-get 
update &&  apt-get dist-upgrade like you.
On my Wheezy box:
$ uname -r
2.6.38-2-686

I really doubt that I got it just because I was in single-user.
Maybe your box was just tired and made a small mistake? :-)

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Goran Dobosevic
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