[ltp] apt for upgrades

[Jericho Gutierrez]

Will apt use my current kernel config file to setup the new kernel?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: honey@gneek.com [mailto:honey@gneek.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 9:07 AM
> To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
> Subject: Re: [ltp] apt for upgrades
> 
> 
> >>> jgutierrez@lrn.com 03/05/04 11:23AM >>>
> > I've been using apt for some time now for rpm upgrades and it works
> > great
> > (the gui synaptic client is nice too).
> > I'm wondering if anybody has used apt for doing the kernel 
> upgrades and
> > if
> > there are any side effects?
> 
> On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Tim ANDERSON wrote:
> > If you're using Fedora, there's a HOWTO at
> > http://fedoranews.org/jorge/howto/howto01.shtml
> 
> This HOWTO is more explicitly for how to upgrade Fedora Core 1 to the
> 2.6 kernel I think, not generally how to do kernel updates with apt.
> 
> My first advice would be to use yum (or up2date) to do kernel updates
> in Fedora, as they both handle them fairly automatically (and are
> installed by default).  But if you want to use synaptic, you need
> to stick with apt: it's still very possible.  Just remember apt is a
> bit dumb about the kernel, because it sees multiple packages. 
>  Do this:
> 
> apt-get install kernel
> 
> - it'll complain about multiple packages and give you a list (with
> lost of duplicates).  Pick the latest from the list (first component)
> and install it explicitly, in quotes:
> 
> apt-get install 'kernel#2.4.20-30.9'
> 
> Finally, remember that unlike yum, apt doesn't make the new kernel
> default: edit the default line in /etc/grub.conf.
> 
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