Re: problem upgrading the kernel

2006-08-12 Thread Serban Udrea
Mertens Bram wrote: Serban Top-posting is considered bad netiquette so please see my response below. Mertens Sorry, but I was never told this before. On 2006-08-10, Serban Udrea wrote: [...] Johannes Wiedersich wrote: ... See the thread entitled "mess" from yesterday/today. aptitude

Re: problem upgrading the kernel

2006-08-10 Thread Mertens Bram
Serban Top-posting is considered bad netiquette so please see my response below. On 2006-08-10, Serban Udrea wrote: [...] > Johannes, thank you for your help! Nevertheless, I do not understand why > apt-get does not do the job, why am I supposed to use aptitude, which is > (if I do interpret co

Re: problem upgrading the kernel

2006-08-10 Thread Serban Udrea
Hello! And please excuse the very late answer, some urgent matters hold me off this issue. Johannes, thank you for your help! Nevertheless, I do not understand why apt-get does not do the job, why am I supposed to use aptitude, which is (if I do interpret correctly the apt-get manpage) a fron

Re: problem upgrading the kernel

2006-07-03 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Serban Udrea wrote: Now to my problem. I have a little server with Debian 3.1 Sarge. A few days ago I received from debian-security the message regarding problems with the 2.4.27 kernel: DSA 1097-1 New Kernel 2.4.27 packages fix several vulnerabilities. Since I have this kernel version installe

Re: problem upgrading the kernel

2006-07-03 Thread Serban Udrea
Hello, And thank you for your answer! Unfortunately there are more then two weeks since the security anouncement was sent. How much can it take to update mirrors?! Is there any other source I could use besides security.debian.org to make security updates. Best regards, Serban Udrea Jon Dowl

Re: problem upgrading the kernel

2006-07-03 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1151929950 past the epoch, Serban Udrea wrote: > A few days ago I received from debian-security the message regarding > problems with the 2.4.27 kernel: DSA 1097-1 New Kernel 2.4.27 packages > fix several vulnerabilities. Since I have this kernel version > installed I tried to upgrade but after