Re: NPTL support in 2.4 kernel series?
In article <[🔎] 41F14F2A.5010800@martin-kittel.de>,
Martin Kittel <debian@martin-kittel.de> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am maintaining the packages of the MaxDB database system.
>
>Recently upstream has converted the database kernel from
>linuxthread-style threading to NPTL. While -at least for i386-
>linuxthreads is still supported in MaxDB at this time, it will go away
>in one of the next releases.
>As far as I know there is no NPTL support in 2.4 debian kernels (as for
>example in some RedHat 2.4 kernels). Is that correct?
>In that case I will have to add a dependency on kernel-image-2.6
Bad idea. On my systems, there is no kernel-image installed at all-
I compile them myself. I bet I'm not the only one.
>or does
>anyone know of a better way to express a dependency on NPTL style threading?
You can check in the preinst if the running kernel is new enough,
but that is about all you can do.
Mike.
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