Dapper - more updates skipped

[Felipe Figueiredo]

Em Wednesday 20 September 2006 12:10, John Dangler escreveu:
> On an update 2 days ago,there was a new linux-image-386 and
> linux-restricted-modules-386 that were not installed.  This morning
> (9/20/06) another update for dapper was available, but I get a dialog
> telling me that the updates for the linux-image-386 and
> linux-restricted-modules-386 will be skipped.
> 
> Is there something wrong with those updates?
> Or is this a new Dapper bug?

It's a feature, not a bug.

Kernel upgrades should not be done automatically, because they require a 
reboot. So apt-get is smart enough not to upgrade automatically some packages 
(including, but not restricted to kernel ones).

You have to manually inform you want to upgrade everything. If you like 
apt-get, in these cases use dist-upgrade instead of upgrade. 

I would suggest to use aptitude pemanently instead of apt-get. It can be used 
both in a text UI, or in CLI (with a syntax very similar to apt-get).

regards
FF