On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 08:40:42AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 02:29:19AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > So are there any porters alive out there on debian-arm? Being unable to use > > cp, mv, and install after upgrading from woody to sarge is a rather serious > > problem. If anyone has any ideas about this, or can test the problem with a > > woody vs. a sarge kernel, please speak up so that we can at the very least > > document this in the release notes if we need to. > Hmm, I started out with sarge testing on my arm systems, so I never did > a woody to sarge upgrade. > I know arm did have a problem testing this given how few systems you > could actually install woody on with an official debian kernel. Since > very few people had one of those systems around, testing the upgrade has > not been easy. > I do seem to recall there is something in the sarge release notes (or > was supposed to be) about how to upgrade arm from woody to sarge involving > getting a new kernel first, since something important changed. I > remember that happens for sure on mips, and also happens on true i386 > machines (since sarge's libc requried 486 instructions, so the new > kernel emulates the few missing instructions on i386 systems). Except there isn't anything in the sarge release notes about this, because the last thing the release team was told was that arm upgrades "should work". So if it doesn't work, I want to know what we need to put in the release notes. :) -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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