On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 01:41:55PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 11:27:12AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > On Feb 10, Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> wrote: > > > We need something which upgrades seamlessly, and the above solution is not > > > acceptable for the etch release, as has been said already in the past. > > This would be nice, but so far nobody has been able to design anything > > better, myself included. > Yeah, but more heads together searching actively may find a solution where > people alone have not. > More to this later, as i am busy, just a few comments now. > > > Is it not possible to have a newer udev which is not removing the older udev, > > > so you have both installed, and the older udev will work with older kernels > > > and the newer udev will work with newer kernels ? > > I do not believe that this would be possible, at least for the general > > case, because the version of udev in stable is almost a different > > program with different interfaces with other system components. > Notice, the only case we really have to deal with is the case where the system > is already running with a 2.6.8 (or random self built) kernel, using the older > udev, and we are installing a newer kernel and udev. > The 2.6.8 kernel is already running, and the kernel upgrade needs a reboot > anyway, so, we only need something that : > - don't mess up the currently running stuff, is it possible to have udev > installed to take effect after the next reboot, and keep the old udev live > until then ? > - installs without trouble. > - works fine when the newer kernel is booted into. - Doesn't fuck the system if you lose power part-way through the dist-upgrade after udev has been unpacked and no newer kernel has been installed. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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