Re: Problem with 2.3.1-8 for hppa

[Carlos O'Donell <carlos@baldric.uwo.ca>]

> If that is the so called solution, could somebody please do something
> I requested a while ago:
> 
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-hppa/2002/debian-hppa-200212/msg00065.html
> 
> tausq: *hint* *hint*
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 	Joey

Joey,

I spoke with you about this, glibc requires that a min_kernel version be
defined for each architecture. As per the problems that two users had we
added a preinst check so you could not install glibc on a system that
had an older kernel than the min_kernel version (e.g. You would never
see "FATAL: kernel too old").

http://lists.debian.org/debian-hppa/2002/debian-hppa-200212/msg00066.html

I intially used 2.4.19 as the defacto min_kernel for all HPPA systems,
both 32 & 64-bit. This drew flack from users saying that 2.4.19 wasn't
ready to be used in all systems. So I apologized and relaxed the
requirement to 2.4.17 for all systems.

I'm not opposed to pushing up the kernel to 2.4.19-pa17 for 64-bit
systems. 

c.