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From: Matthias Saou <matthias@egwn.net>
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Subject: Re: About apt, kernel updates and dist-upgrade
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Once upon a time, Peter wrote :

> I started wondering how does apt react when it finds a newer kernel in
> the bunch of "to be updated" files?

It skips it. See the /etc/apt/apt.conf file for this.

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

I've done a dist-upgrade from 7.2 to a quite broken rawhide release... it
was a mess, still, it went much faster and smoother than if I had done it
"manually" with rpm -U or -F. I think that updates between stable releases
should still be done with the installer since IIRC, sometimes a few
twitches are done by anaconda to migrate configurations to new formats. It
should work though... I still prefer backuping config files and
reinstalling a clean system when I have the time.

Matthias

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