should "apt-get dist-upgrade" include kernel updates???

[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

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It would appear that on May 7, Derek Broughton did say:

> Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
> 
> > should "apt-get dist-upgrade" include kernel updates???
> > 
> > I thought I understood that it should, but I haven't seen it happen yet.
> > 
> 
> As someone else pointed out, Breezy shouldn't generally
> have kernel updates. 

Thank you Derek. Can I presume that this is "because" it's been released
as a stable ubuntu version, and that once released as stable (June 1st?),
Dapper will also only occasionally get kernel updates?

> However, there's also the fact that the actual kernel
> packages do not conflict with each other.  You need to
> have one of the meta-packages, like linux-image-686,
> installed to get the latest kernel with a dist-upgrade,

I'm glad to hear that kernel packages don't conflict, as this makes me
think I can safely "apt-get install linux-686" on my p3 without
needing to "apt-get remove linux-386" first. If so, then _my_ grub menu
will have the ability to boot the 386 kernel if something reacts badly
to the 686 one, and vs/vsr. AND be able to be sure I've got the latest 
version of both to work with. WOW!

> and that won't remove the previous kernel (because we
> need the system to still be bootable if anything goes wrong!).

I should hope not! But actually I let the installer install grub to a
floppy so that I can look at /boot in my / partition to see what ubuntu
would automatically update itself with, while I copy/rename/etc... as
appropriate, to my "real" /boot partition. So even if Ubuntu had actually
uninstalled the old kernel, I'd still have it, until/unless I agreed... 

And in any case, now that I've seen what happens when apt-get
"does" install a later kernel, I'm feeling a lot better about using it
to dist-upgrade to Dapper ;-)

Thanks!

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