Re: Backports of linux-2.6 and dependencies
* Bastian Blank wrote:
> The backports.org archive carries current versions of most needed
> packages to run new kernels on Sarge but some of them (eg
> initramfs-tools) are outdated,
That's because backports.org is based on testing, not unstable.
It's the same reason why 2.6.16 isn't available on backports.org yet,
but I already prepared updated linux-image, udev and initramfs-tools
backports on http://people.backports.org/~tretkowski/upload/
> some are seriously broken (linux-2.6 uses the same abiname as the
> versions in sid/etch but provides a different abi due to the usage
> of another compiler).
Indeed.
> The advantages of this solution, compared to the current status, are
> automatic updates on new release of udev/klibc/whatever
And automatic breakage when something in unstable breaks. That's why
we're using testing.
> To implement this solution, we need help from both the backport and
> the kernel team: we need autobuilders and we need someone for every
> arch to verify and approve the packages for the archive.
An updated version of kernel-package (and make as it's dependency) is
also needed.
Norbert
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