On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 07:56:32PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > The kernel is likely going to be upgraded automatically because users will > > be using the kernel-image-2.6-xxx packages. > > Is that a problem for some reason? > > > So we're going to have another release with a very elaborate upgrade > > procedure in the release notes (which a lot of users, especially desktop > > users, don't read anyway)? > > 1) upgrade your kernel > 2) dist-upgrade > > That doesn't seem terribly elaborate to me? And if people choose not to > read, well, they get a failure on dist-upgrade and get to figure it out > for themselves, I guess. > Will that still apply in the case of a home-rolled kernel? If you use the Debian-provided kernel, then you will have a kernel on your system that is compiled with the default version of gcc that is in Etch. However, if you have to compile your own kernel, do you upgrade kernel, dist-upgrade and then recompile with the new gcc? -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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