Re: more current kernels for sarge in volatile?

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 03:02:28PM +0100, maximilian attems wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Andreas Barth wrote:
> 
> > * Sven Luther (sven.luther@wanadoo.fr) [051229 11:47]:
> > > The main problem are the too strict rules for building in volatile, which stop
> > > us from uploading the etch/sid kernels and associated packages to it.
> > 
> > Actually, I think we should first consider which kernel minor version we
> > want to use (including of course the requirements on the user side like
> > udev, devfs, ...), and if we have done that, resolve any technical
> > issues with the infrastructure.
> 
> 2.6.15 should work with older udev.
> 
> initramfs-tools will depend on the version of udev that is chosen for
> volatile, we have supported different version of it,
> so that is fixable.
> 
> klibc is easy to backport.
> last i heard that busybox doen't build on sarge glibc? is that still true?

mmm, maybe i misunderstand, but shouldn't you be building busybox with klibc,
if you put it inside the image ? 

> that would rule out initramfs-tools unless there is known fix for that.
> 
> yaird has the bigger perl dependendency, but that is said to be working
> with the sarge modules.

Indeed, i can confirm that, it would break the upgrade from sarge 2.4 kernels,
but the upgrade from sarge 2.6.8 kernels is ok.

Friendly,

Sven Luther