Re: Time to test sarge
bob@proulx.com (Bob Proulx) writes:
> Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> the owner <editor@postscript.port5.com> writes:
>> > I used the above sources.list with this image:
>> > sid-amd64-netinst.iso 11-Feb-2005 09:01 193M
>>
>> I can't figure that one out:
>>
>> apt-cache policy libc6 libc6-dev
>>
>> libc6:
>> 2.3.2.ds1-20 0
>> 1001 http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org sarge/main Packages
>> libc6-dev:
>> 2.3.2.ds1-20 0
>> 1001 http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org sarge/main Packages
>>
>> Only sid has 2.3.2.ds1-20.0.0.1.pure64 which only differs in having a
>> Replaces: base-files (<< 3.1.2-0.0.0.1.pure64) for update purposes.
>
> I just did virtually this same installation using the same image. The
> 2.3.2.ds1-20.0.0.1.pure64 came in through the sid-amd64-netinst.iso
> image. I have not seen any problems yet due to this issue but the
> machine is just barely installed to the base system right now.
The 2.3.2.ds1-20 and 2.3.2.ds1-20.0.0.1.pure64 are identical apart
from an Replaces on old base-files. The only thing this breaks is the
libc6-dev 2.3.2.ds1-20 since it depends on the exact same version.
> Most things worked well. But upon reboot the grub loader went into an
> infinite loop loading stage 1.5. I booted grub from a DFS disk and
> used it to boot the installed kernel. That worked. I reinstalled
> grub from the installed system and all was good. It rebooted normally
> after that.
Known 2.6.10 issue.
> Looking forward to the new sarge-amd64-netinst.iso image that I
> understand from one of your other messages is in the process of
> uploading now.
>
> Bob
MfG
Goswin
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