sidux kernel upgrade without dist-upgrade
Debian “lenny” was released mid Feburary, and since then experimental packages have been making their way into sid much more quickly then usual. This makes dist-upgrade a bit dangerous, but kernel upgrades are not installed when doing a normal upgrade. Here’s a shell command I use to upgrade just the sidux kernel:
dpkg -l *2.6-sidux-amd64 | grep '^ii' | awk '{print $2}' | xargs apt-get -y install
Replace amd64 with 686 if you’re not running 64-bit. This works because all of the sidux kernel packages (image, headers, *-modules) end with 2.6-sidux-amd64 (2.6-sidux-686).
To remove old kernels, I use kernel-remover from the sidux-kernelhacking package.
