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Re: kernel upgrade



On Du, 30 mar 14, 10:57:37, Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Mar 2014 10:42:52 +0200
> Nemeth Gyorgy <friczy@freemail.hu> wrote:
> 
> Hello Nemeth,
> 
> >Are you sure?
> >When the kernel version number changes, the
> >linux-image-<versionnumber>-amd64.deb will be a new package.
> 
> Yes.  Stephen said "..assuming of course the meta package is
> installed."  He didn't write that without reason.

The meta package is upgrade, but the actual linux-image-<version> 
package is not. Without dist-upgrade apt will just hold the meta package 
back, because it can't be upgraded without installing a new package.

You might be thinking of 'aptitude safe-upgrade' which does indeed 
install new dependencies.

Hope this explains,
Andrei
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