Re: 2.2r3 preparation
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Anthony Towns wrote:
>...
> Anyone have any worthwhile opinions on how 2.2r3 and 2.4.0 should get
> along? There already seems to be an iptables package and adding a new
> devfsd package would have little chance of breaking any existing installs
If you look at the bugs page of the devfsd package [1] you'll see that the
package needs some work before it can go in a stable.
> (assuming they don't install it). modutils is out of date, though. It
> might be worth considering making a modutils-2.4 package, which would
> work in most cases, and run little risk of breaking anyone's system.
To support Kernel 2.4 you we need to upgrade at least:
- modutils
- util-linux
- ppp
The version of modutils in stable will be higher than the version
currently in testing.
> Of course, there's no way we're going to support 2.4.x in potato much
> better than we supported 2.2.x in slink, but including stuff for it
> on CDs in extra doesn't strike me as unreasonable. I'm prepared to be
> shouted down, of course.
To support kernel 2.4 we have to:
- put buggy packages (devfsd) in stable
- upgrade very important packages
I suggest another solution:
Someone (if noone else wants to I can do it) sets up an apt-able archive
with packages needed for kernel 2.4 recompiled for potato. Then stable
stays stable and who wants to use kernel 2.4 or distributors who want to
ship kernel 2.4 have the needed packages.
> If someone (Ben?) wants to ask around to see what else has to be resolved
> in r3, that'd be helpful.
>
> Cheers,
> aj
cu,
Adrian
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/devfsd
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