Hi Carlos, On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 01:19:53PM -0500, Carlos O'Donell wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 02:08:25PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 01:54:38PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 02:31:55PM +0100, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > > > > As many of you may know on some machines users will need to install > > > > a current kernel before they will be able to upgrade woody to sarge > > > > (or better: glibc of woody to glibc of sarge). I've tried to use the > > > > available information to provide the needed files for these kernel > > > > upgrades. > > > > To my knowledge the affected machines/architecures are currently > > > > hppa64, sparc sun4m (only some of them) and 80386. > > > It's all hppa machines, not just hppa64. > > Then why does the libc6 preinst say that the minimum kernel is 2.4.17 for > > parisc, and 2.4.19 for parisc64? If this is an error, it will need to be > > reconciled before release. > It is not an error. I submitted the patch. Userspace requires a 32-bit > kernel of atleast 2.4.17, and a 64-bit kernel of atleast 2.4.19. The > 64-bit code has some orthogonal issues that took time to fix. > Both could be made to require 2.4.19, and infact the upstream glibc > patch set the requirement to 2.4.19. Well, requiring 2.4.19 for 32-bit would imply a need for additional upgrade testing; so if it's not actually needed, I think we're best off leaving glibc's preinst the way it is. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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