I am a AIX and RedHat guy, so I am not really familiar with apt-get. I saw the upgrade option and curiosity got the best of me.

I am running OS2006

The next thing I know I was upgrading some packages, it got to maemo-launcher and POW (REBOOT), OK no problem came right back up, ran apt-get upgrade again, ERROR, says runs dpkg --configure -a , I think that was the command, anyway ran that. ERROR tells me maemo-launcher is hosed.

This system is booted from MMC, I downloaded maemo-launcher, booted back to flash, insmod ext2, mounted my mmcp2 and used dpkg --admin --root and set it to the mnt dirs. I was then able to put maemo-launcher back onto the mounted system. It was kind of cool, I booted back onto mmcp2 and dpkg and apt-get were all set again.

Questions:

Does upgrading get me anything, I have heard about the reboot loops?

Are reboot loops only in sardine?

Now when I run apt-get upgrade, it says 0 upgraded, 4 not upgraded

The following packages have been kept back
hildon-fmmm
hildon-widgetsmm
libglibmm-2.4.1
libgtkmm-2.4.1

What does kept back mean? Can I download them and install them with dpkg? Should I, were they kept back for a reason? Am I in am unstable state?

IS THE WORLD ENDING???

Anyway, if anyone can shed any light into any of this I'd be grateful~