Re: Upgrading to current udev is disastrous if not on kernel 2.6.12

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> writes:

> On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 04:13:36PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>> On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 07:02:01AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> > You can't. The latest version checks the kernel version in preinst.
>> > Did you have 0.062-4?
>> 
>> Does that work? apt-get upgrade just installed 0.062-4 on my 2.6.8-11
>> system without complaint.
>
> Hmm. The preinst only complains if you had < 0.060 before.
> I upgraded to that earlier in July but never rebooted;
> now I have 0.062. I guess this is bad, so I'll try to avoid
> rebooting.
>
>
> Hamish

There might be a bug left there. I think one of the versions since
0.060 didn't have the right check so you could upgrade to that without
the right kernel and then upgrade to the current one without check.

I will ask the maintainer about this. Thanks for noticing that gap.

MfG
        Goswin