Re: making udev require 2.6.15 kernels
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 04:20:02PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> This means you're not guaranteed to get /usr/sbin/sshd, which many admins
> use exclusively for system administration where remote kvm is not an
> affordable option. That's a pretty big problem.
Maybe we need a sshd in /sbin then, since as i understand there is no real
guarantee that /usr is mounted always in case of problems ?
> The stated problem is that upgrades from sarge to etch require the user to
> go to a bunch of extra work to change out their kernel before they can
> dist-upgrade. I haven't heard you say "lvm will depend on the linux-image
> package it needs", or anything equivalent, which means the preinst check for
> running kernel version is the only protection against a completely broken
> system.
Yeah, all that is the same problem, and we need to find a way of fixing it
before the sarge release.
Maybe generalizing the --supported-version used by the ramdisk-generator tools
would be an idea.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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