On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 01:06:39AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 09:43:33PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > 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? > > Yes, of course. The reason this is such an issue in the first place is > > because kernel dependencies are *not* expressed as package dependencies; > > instead, udev checks the running kernel version in the preinst. > Thanks for the clarification. > > > However, if you have to compile your own kernel, do you upgrade kernel, > > > dist-upgrade and then recompile with the new gcc? > > Why? > Becuase I roll my own kernel. If I upgrade the kernel with gcc-3.3 > (currently the Sarge default) and then upgrade to Etch (which will have > gcc-4.0 for a default) I will run into problems if I decide to add new > modules to my kernel. Thus, those with a self-compiled kernel are in a > situation where you can a) dist-upgrade without first upgrading the > kernel and risk breakage; or b) upgrade the kernel twice. Once before > and once after. I suppose that it is possible to build the new kernel > inside of a chroot (or sbuild or pbuilder) if kernel-package is being > used. > I am simply pointing out that there is a potential issue that needs to > at least be addressed in the release notes. Ah, yes. I really don't understand why the kernel embeds the gcc version into its version-matching logic, but I've run into this problem as well. I agree that it warrants documenting, though I also suspect that most users running self-compiled 2.6 kernels are going to be running something a bit newer than 2.6.8 anyway. Option a) doesn't seem particularly sensible to me, btw, because the "risk" is near certain... -- 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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