Persistent USB install with kernel updates

[bpb21]

I hope this hasn't been asked and answered somewhere; I've tried to do my due diligence in searching.

Is it possible to make a persistent USB installation that you can keep current, including kernel updates? (One that would update correctly even with apt-get dist-upgrade.) I've done this with antiX but it appears to be a special feature of antiX (remaster persistence).

I was just thinking it would be cool to be able to upgrade my persistent USB stick without doing a full reinstall to stay current with frequent updates.

This may be beyond the use case of a live persistent USB for Kali regardless.

[Mister_X]

AFAIK, it isn't really possible now, but there is a way to update the kernel, which is kind of tricky and done outside of the persistence/live.

[bpb21]

Gotcha. That's as far as I'd gotten with it. Not a huge priority because it's pretty easy to make a persistent USB and all. Just a matter of convenience of you've made separate persistent partitions and have different files in them.
(There may be a way to redo that more efficiently, too!)