Hi Javier, On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 06:14:03PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > Browsing through #241497 I've found that there is at least an important > issue that needs to be documented related to the upgrade patch from woody > to sarge, specially in some architectures (hppa64, sparc sun4m and 80386). > Is anyone working in providing detailed information on the requirements > for an upgrade from woody? > I'm not sure if the debian-installer team (in CC:) is aware of similar > issues, but maybe they could provide a list of the (known) issues that need > to be documented before the sarge release in the Release Notes pertaining > to upgrades. > The current Release Notes are very terse related to kernel upgrades, and > IMHO should be extended providing a proper procedure for people that have > installed woody using debian-boot (and thus have boot floppy kernels) and > want to upgrade to sarge. I'm not sure that debian-boot is the right list to ask for help in documenting upgrade issues, since the current list charter is "Developing the installation system", which nowadays refers entirely to d-i instead of boot-floppies. Frank Lichtenheld has already provided some documentation of the architecture-specific kernel backport issues, which Frans has pointed you to; would you be willing to take a stab at documenting general kernel upgrade path concerns, perhaps by asking -devel for volunteers to help test and report? http://bugs.debian.org/upgrade-reports may also be useful to people working on the release notes. (Though maybe not very much, yet, to judge by what I see there. :) Thanks, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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