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Subject: Re: About apt, kernel updates and dist-upgrade
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On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 05:04:08PM +0200, Peter Peltonen wrote:
> I started wondering how does apt react when it finds a newer kernel in the 
> bunch of "to be updated" files?

Look at /etc/apt/apt.conf. I think ^kernel$ matches the kernel packages
(apart from those matched by the rest, smp, enterprise).
I think it won't do anything about the kernels. Come to think of it, the
abovementioned might have nothing to do with it.

I explicitly use apt-get install kernel and then from the list pick a
version and then install kernel#2.4.foo-bar.

> And has anyone ever tried to do a dist-upgrade, say from 7.1 to 7.2? 
> Should it work? If not, why?

Should. Haven't tried with dist-upgrade but I have put 7.2 netboot
mirror (ie, 7.2) into sources.list and run install step-by-step for IIRC
everything. Worked ok. I think there'll be a few .rpmnew files worth
checking such as, especially, passwd and group.
I think there was a group change. "lock" ?

-- 
It feels great to wake up and not know what day it is, doesn't it?

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