On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 07:27:42PM -0800, Jeff Bailey wrote : > On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 09:37:41AM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote: > > > >From glibc 2.3.2.ds1-8, libc6.preinst checks kernel version on mips > > because of this IPC issue. I wonder why libc6.postrm in libc6 2.3.2-7 > > causes this error. Alexandre, please show us your kernel version. > > Moreover, please show us where your script was stopped. I think the > > recent version should work. Is this really "grave" bug? Is this bug > > happened on other mips users' machines? > The kernel version is : Linux version 2.4.18 (root@qube) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)) #2 Fri May 31 17:40:33 BST 2002 You can find the config file at http://debian.zetnet.co.uk/pm/mips-cobalt/kernel/config.full I can't use newer kernel because they just won't compile. I think it is a grave bug because it prevents installing libc6 and so it prevents upgrading a lot of packages. > The clue I'm working on is this: > > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-10_mipsel.deb > > It's mipsel, not mips. My plan was to adjust libc.preinst so that it > picks up the minimum kernel version from the various sysdeps files. The > only complication is hppa, which has strange kernel versions. That way > it would be taken care of for everyone, whenever the minimum version was > updated. > If I have correctly understood, the difference between mips and mipsel is the endianess. -- Alexandre Belloni AE-UTBM: http://ae.utbm.fr - - Lolut: http://lolut.utbm.info Key fingerprint = A7C6 7CD4 4328 59D1 79FD B8BB 945F 4DD5 B634 89BD
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