Apt/Rawhide update doesn't seem to update kernel. . .

[Panu Matilainen]

Quoting Justin Georgeson <jgeorgeson at lopht.net>:

> Per my experience with debian, and performing the upgrade from RH 9 
> betas to RH 9 with apt, apt never grabs a kernel as part of a 
> dist-upgrade. In debian, stable/testing/unstable don't actually have a 
> specific kernel version assigned to them, they each have a handful of 
> major/minor kernels available, which you must install explicitly.

Apt itself doesn't consider kernel special in any way, it's just that usually 
the kernel packages are configured as "allow-duplicated". Such packages apt 
doesn't even try to upgrade automatically (though I'm working on it :) 

Oh and btw the syntax to use with such packages is
"apt-get install kernel#x.y.z", not kernel-x.yz as someone mentioned.

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