Re: What's needed for kernel 2.2

[Remco van de Meent <remco@debian.org>]

Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> Will some guru tell us what critical packages we need to update in order
> to use 2.2 ?

I'm not a guru I guess, but I can cut&paste something from
linux/Documentation/Changes:

- Kernel modules         2.1.121           ; insmod -V
- Gnu C                  2.7.2.3           ; gcc --version
- Binutils               2.8.1.0.23        ; ld -v
- Linux libc5 C Library  5.4.46            ; ls -l /lib/libc.so.*
- Linux libc6 C Library  2.0.7pre6         ; ls -l /lib/libc.so.*
- Dynamic Linker (ld.so) 1.9.9             ; ldd --version or ldd -v
- Linux C++ Library      2.7.2.8           ; ls -l /usr/lib/libg++.so.*
- Procps                 1.2.9             ; ps --version
- Procinfo               15                ; procinfo -v
- Psmisc                 17                ; pstree -V
- Net-tools              1.49              ; hostname -V
- Loadlin                1.6a
- Sh-utils               1.16              ; basename --v
- Autofs                 3.1.1             ; automount --version
- NFS                    2.2beta37         ; showmount --version
- Bash                   1.14.7            ; bash -version
- Ncpfs                  2.2.0             ; ncpmount -v
- Pcmcia-cs              3.0.6             ; cardmgr -V
- PPP                    2.3.5             ; pppd -v
- Util-linux             2.9               ; chsh -v

Those are in these Debian packages:

modutils, gcc, binutils, libc5, libc6, ldso, procps, sysutils, psmisc,
hostname, loadlin, shellutils, autofs, nfs-server, bash, ncpfs, pcmcia-cs,
ppp, util-linux.

If you get the versions of these packages that are in the currently frozen
Debian distribution (slink), then they'll suffice.


HTH,
 -Remco