On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Marc Horowitz wrote:
I had an old sparc which was running a 2.2.20 kernel (yes, old) and libc6 2.2.5-11.5. I tried to upgrade it (apt-get install dist-upgrade) and it choked. In particular, the kernel depends on a newer version of libc:
This is a known issue, arising when attempting woody->sarge upgrade on sparc. Proper procedure for upgrading the kernel is documented in Sarge release notes (paragraph 4.3 and appendix A):
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/sparc/release-notes/ap-kernel-upgrade-howto.en.html Best regards, Jurij Smakov jurij@wooyd.org Key: http://www.wooyd.org/pgpkey/ KeyID: C99E03CC