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

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 07 May 2011 17:59:53 +0100, Dom wrote:

> On 07/05/11 17:18, Camaleón wrote:

(...)

>> 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? :-?
> 
> Do you have the linux-image-686 package installed? (I see you're using
> the 686 version) This package is a dummy package that depends on the
> latest kernel, currently linux-image-2.6.38-2-686. If you do, then
> apt-get dist-upgrade will install the new kernel when available (but it
> won't remove your old kernel).

Hum... nope, it's not installed:

dpkg test@debian:~$ dpkg -l | grep linux-image
ii  linux-image-2.6.32-5-686             2.6.32-31                         Linux 2.6.32 for modern PCs

The question is, shouldn't this have to be done automatically? 

Yes, I can now manually install the latest kernel (or the meta-package) 
but I'd have expected the dist-upgrade routine would have managed out by 
itself... well, as godo said, maybe this has been an exception but is not
the rule :-)

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón