On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 12:45:13AM -0800, Bob Miller wrote: > >I installed Debian Potato 2.2r0. Then I put some stuff in >/etc/apt/sources.list and ran "apt-get update; apt-get upgrade". Many >things were made newer. > >But not the kernel. My kernel is still at 2.2.17, even though >the only kernels on the debian mirrors are various 2.2.19-based >things. > >Why?
Hm, that is odd. I'm not sure why. > >How should I upgrade the kernel? > I would do it by firing up dselect and looking for kernel-image packages with the appropriate rev; you could also do # apt-get install kernel-image-2.2.19 >What other packages do I have to take explicit action to upgrade? > I would suspect that packages that have version numbers in the base name, like lsof-2.2 (or lsof-2.0.36) would require this kind of manual selection. Several scripting language packages appear to use this theme as well. -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.
