Bug#231538: Bug status report?
What progress has been made and what still needs to be done?
Apparently current glibc now has the checking code in glibc to prevent it from
being upgraded until *after* the kernel is upgraded (to 2.4.24 or 2.6.0).
However, as Karolina Lindqvist wrote:
> You can't install 2.4.24 on a i386 system, since it depends on initrd-tools
> (>= 0.1.48) and
> modutils (>= 2.4.19) which are not in woody. The SID versions of those
require
> the new libc6, which in turn require the new kernel running. So how to
> upgrade to that kernel on a 386?
Andreas Barth wrote:
>You add first
>deb http://www.backports.org/debian stable initrd-tools module-init-tools
>to your apt.sources-list and dist-upgrade only modutils and
>initrd-tools. Afterwards, kernel, and afterwards the normal upgrade to
>sarge.
Obviously this is not really an acceptable upgrade path from woody to sarge!
We do want to ensure an straighforward upgrade path from woody on real i386s.
Andreas Barth wrote:
>Well, to be plain, I think a more recent modutils and initrd-tools
>should be added to woody with the next point release, and also a new
>kernel image, both for the boot floppies and in the archive, that
>emulates 486-opcodes on 386. Also this should be IMHO be noted in
>the Release-notes.
Is this the plan? This would require new packages in the next point release
of woody, before sarge comes out, but I don't see that any progress has been
made on that.
Replies to the bug trail please.
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