Please try to get it right in future

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 03:39:06PM -0500, Robert Brimhall wrote:

> I actually had a problem with a recent kernel upgrade. Grub was set up
> to boot a kernel with a .dpkg extension (2.6.8.1-3.dpkg or something
> to that effect)... I had to remove the entry from grub and another
> default kernel. Not sure if this is related in any way but I didn't do
> a "smart" update either and I'm still not sure what that is exactly
> not being used to package managers after several months of using
> Slackware. How does one do a "smart" update? I'm just asking... not
> trying to be confrontational or anything... Thanks.

Sounds like the upgrade failed.  The .dpkg-new files are deleted after the
package is successfully installed.

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 - mdz