Re: Potato Upgrade.
On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 10:14:11AM +1000, Aaron Daniels wrote:
> Hi,
> I recently upgraded my slink sparc5 box to potato.
> During the upgrade it told me that to upgrade libc6 I needed to install 2.2.7 or
> higher kernel.
> I did so, but this is a production box and I dont really feel safe running a
> kernel that unstable.
What makes you think the kernel is unstable?
Kernel versioning is:
major.minor.revision (e.g, 2.2.7, 2.3.99)
Unstable kernels are when the minor number is odd (i.e 2.3.99 ); revision
does not indicate anything to do with stability.
Thus: 2.0.x, 2.2.x, 2.4.x, are stable and 2.1.x and 2.3.x are unstable.
> So my Questions are.
> 1. is that libc6 error a requirement or a recomendation.
> 2. is the 2.2.7 kernel stable enough for production use.
There are a number of problems with 2.2.7 (though I don't know which
specifically affect Sparcs). You should, as much as possible, be running
the latest kernel which I believe is 2.2.15
Anand
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