Re: Desktop upgrade strategy (was: What should be upgraded first: kernel or userland?)
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 07:15:43PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> > > And even then my tests have so far shown that the system will
> > > probably still boot (though X may not start).
> > And will the networking necessarily start? That could be a problem for
> > a number of users if it doesn't.
> I don't have the answers to these questions. I have not tested with
> multiple NICs and don't think I can reproduce device renaming here.
Yeah, it's not really dependent on device renaming (which AFAICS was much
less likely to be used in sarge), but on whether the system was set up to
depend on hotplugging to load the network drivers as opposed to a static
config in /etc/modules or something like discover. If you need udev to get
your modules loaded, and udev refuses to start, <pff>
Anyway, see previous mail.
> > Hmm. I'm provisionally amenable to accepting aptitude -4 into etch,
> > but this is obviously a quite late change that will receive little
> > additional testing before the release; so I'd like to hear what the
> > other members of the release team have to say about this. In
> > particular, is this fix one that would be worth delaying the release
> > over if we find that -4 introduces regressions or requires further
> > testing for purposes of the release notes?
> The new aptitude has by now been tested fairly extensively in unstable
> (I've been using it daily on several machines). As we don't use the new
> aptitude with any upgrade scheme proposed so far, I don't think it
> impacts the upgrade procedure or the RN at all.
> I also doubt it will affect new installs, but I have not tested that yet.
> Doing so is trivial (netboot or businesscard install of unstable). I'm
> willing to do that and also check if #411123 is really fixed.
Would you mind doing such an install test? I think we are going to push
this in, but given the timing I would definitely be more comfortable to have
that extra assurance.
Thanks,
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