Re: Does "apt-get dist-upgrade" upgrade the kernel?
On 20110508_095510, Camaleón wrote:
> On Sun, 08 May 2011 11:21:07 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
>
> > On Sb, 07 mai 11, 16:18:53, Camaleón wrote:
>
> >> 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.
> >
> > You need either the package linux-image-<flavour> or
> > linux-image-2.6-<flavour> and a new kernel will be installed as soon as
> > the Kernel Team updates the dependencies of these packages.
>
> Do I need "either" or do I need "both"? :-)
>
> 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 ;-(
>
> > Whether one of these packages is installed by default depends on how you
> > installed that particular machine (example: it might not be installed in
> > expert mode since AFAIR you get a specific question about which kernel
> > package to install).
>
> I always use the expert installer so that can be the reason I didn't have
> the meta-package installed by default.
Camaleón,
I always use the expert installer and I always have the meta-package
installed, Expert mode, for me, always presents a screen for selection
of a kernel package with the meta-package highlighted. But I also
always use aptitude, and I'm not yet convinced that aptitude and apt-get
always do the same thing.
HTH
--
Paul E Condon
pecondon@mesanetworks.net
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