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

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 08 May 2011 19:49:06 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:

> On Du, 08 mai 11, 09:55:10, Camaleón wrote:

>> Curious is that, as I said before, it was installed it:
>> 
>> 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
>> 
>> But the updated kernel was not showing to me as "available" until I
>> manually pulled the meta-package ;-(
> 
> I don't understand what you mean here, could you please rephrase a bit?

Sure. I mean I already had the "linux-image-2.6.32-5-686" package 
installed but "apt-get dist-upgrade" did not offer the latest version 
available ("linux-image-2.6.38-2-686") so I had to manually install it.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón