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Re: Retaining Older Kernels After Image Update



Le 03/08/2014 20:32, Lisi Reisz a écrit :
On Sunday 03 August 2014 17:10:33 Pascal Hambourg wrote:

Don't confuse installing a new kernel (3.2 and 3.12 are different
kernels, different packages names) and upgrading an installed kernel
with a new release (same version, same package name, different package
release versions). Upgrading an installed kernel package replaces it, as
with any other package. Installing a new kernel does not.

I just run "aptitude update"  "aptitude full-upgrade" and it "upgrades" the
kernel.

That's because aptitude full-upgrade (or apt-get dist-upgrade) may install new packages as the result of dependency changes. E.g a new kernel which the updated version of linux-latest (meta-package) depends on.


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