On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 08:10:34PM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote: > On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 01:16:10PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 11:54:38AM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 10:42:12PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > It's come to my attention that on mips(el), the glibc in sarge is > > > > incompatible with the kernel in woody, and the kernel in sarge is > > > > incompatible with the glibc in woody. This is an impasse that has to be > > > > resolved for sarge's release, so that upgrades from woody to sarge can > > > > be supported. > > > > > > What exactly is the issue with kernels in sarge running on woody? > > As I understand it, it's emulation of missing instructions on certain > > hardware (at least, that's the case on i386). > I was only refering to the special mips case. Sorry if this was > confusing. > > > I'm running 2.4.22 without any problems since several months on mips > > > now. We could then simply add to the release notes that on woody > > > upgrades the kernel has to be updated first, then glibc. > > Modern kernel packages have dependencies that require a glibc newer than > > that in woody. To break this deadlock, we need upgrade kernel packages > But they shouldn't. I for myself introduced and then later removed this > dependency from 2.4.22 to allow for exactly this upgrade path. Thiemo > took over the package later and I can't find a note in the changelog > that reintroduced this conflict. Looking more closely at the mips Package file, I see that you're right -- these kernel image packages don't have the versioned dependency on modutils that others do. But I don't understand how this can be the case; on other architectures, this dependency is essential because old versions of modutils cannot handle modules from newer kernels. Are the kernel-images provided for mips and mipsel in sid entirely monolithic? If not, have they been tested with the modutils from woody? Thanks, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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