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

[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

It would appear that on May 7, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook:
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Somehow my outbox copy didn't have the newsgroup header line. 
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It would appear that on May 6, Scott did say:

> On 05/06/2006 04:33 PM, * Joe(theWordy)Philbrook spake thusly:
> > 
> > should "apt-get dist-upgrade" include kernel updates??
> 
> In Breezy, only if it's security related.

Which makes me think that perhaps once the "stable" version of Dapper is
released, it would perhaps only be so "if security related"?
 
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/breezy/base/linux-image-2.6.12-10-386
> 
> 2.6.12-10 is the latest in Breezy.
> 
> > 
> > I thought I understood that it should, but I haven't seen it happen yet.
> > 
> > I installed breezy from the cd back in Dec of 2005. I'll admit I've only
> > run "apt-get dist-upgrade" a few times. But the most recent was today,
> > and so far it hasn't updated or even downloaded an updated kernel.
> 
> How about just "apt-get upgrade"?

from man apt get:
  dist-upgrade  in  addition  to performing the function of upgrade,
  also intelligently handles changing dependencies...

It just seamed like the way to go...

> Do you have the "linux-386" package installed? It will always depend on
> the latest kernel.

Do now, and it did result in a kernel update, Which makes me more
comfortable with what I'll have to do when I go to Dapper.
 
> And if your computer is less than say 10 years old, you might consider
> "linux-686" as it's optimized for Pentium Pro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV
> processors.

Would it cause problems if I installed both linux-386 & linux-686 so as
to automatically get to choose to boot either "latest" kernel?

THANKS!

BTW, why "angry"keyboarder???

I like the name, and considering how I feel whenever programmers make it
hard to avoid disturbing my dusty rodent-like pointing device to do
something... I wish I'd thought of it first <grin> 

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