Re: Why has new bookwork installation given me a newer kernel than an upgraded bookworm?

The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 30/01/2025 20:54, Chris Green wrote:

Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> wrote:

On 30.01.2025 16:00 Uhr Chris Green wrote:
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I'm confused, I've just installed Raspberry Pi OS (Bookworkm) on a
new Pi 4B and it has installed Kernel: 6.6.62+rpt-rpi-v8 aarch64.
>
I have another 4B on which I installed Bookworm a while ago and have
updated regularly and it only has Kernel: 6.1.21-v8+ aarch64.

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apt list installed 'linux-image*'
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That simply lists every possible matching package as far as I can see,
not what's actually installed.
 
There isn't anything actually installed with a package name matching
'linux-image':-
 
     chris@homepi$ dpkg -l | grep linux-image
     chris@homepi$
 
 
The 'older' system has /boot/kernel8.img installed from the
raspberrypi-kernel package.
 
The 'newer' system says /boot/kernel8.img comes from the
raspberrypi-kernel package but there isn't any raspberrypi-kernel
package installed. :-
 
     root@newodinpi:~# apt-file search kernel8.img
     raspberrypi-kernel: /boot/kernel8.img
     root@newodinpi:~# dpkg -l | grep raspberrypi-kernel
     root@newodinpi:~#
 
Something is funny here!
 

Don't you have to use apt-get dist-upgrade to install newer kernels?
I assumed that was to avoid the need to reboot on automated updates.
 
Yeah. I think I am right. The policy is not to change the kernel on
normal upgrades
 

I tried that, no change, still 6.1 kernel:-

    root@homepi# uname -a
    Linux homepi 6.1.21-v8+ #1642 SMP PREEMPT Mon Apr  3 17:24:16 BST 2023 aarch64 GNU/Linux
    root@homepi# apt update
    Get:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security InRelease [48.0 kB]
    Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease
    Hit:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates InRelease
    Hit:4 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian bookworm InRelease
    Get:5 https://apt.syncthing.net syncthing InRelease [15.7 kB]
    Fetched 63.6 kB in 2s (38.1 kB/s)                 
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree... Done
    Reading state information... Done
    All packages are up to date.
    root@homepi# apt dist-upgrade
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree... Done
    Reading state information... Done
    Calculating upgrade... Done
    0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
    root@homepi#


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Chris Green
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