Re: New kernels

[Dan Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>]

On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 01:24:50PM -0400, Christopher C Chimelis wrote:
> Yep (assuming you configure too ;-)).  Dpkg has a problem with the newer
> kernels (after 2.1.82 I believe), but it does work.  You just have to be
> patient and/or use --force-overwrite alot with it.  There are a few of us
> working on a permanent fix for this right now, so it shouldn't be long
> before we get a fixed glibc package to handle this (along with a kernel
> patch upstream).

Out of curiousity, how so?  And with dpkg 1.4.0.27?  Does alpha have
the syscall numbers even more deranged than other platforms?

Dan