Re: Potato Upgrade.

["Brenda J. Butler" <bjb@achilles.net>]

On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 12:04:09AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> > 2. is the 2.2.7 kernel stable enough for production use.
> 
> If you are running a 2.0.x kernel on a sparc, you don't really know the
> meaning of stable until you upgrade to a 2.2.x (2.2.15 recommended)
> kernel. Believe me, the speed and stability improvements are well worth
> it. I would do this before upgrading to potato completely:
> 
> apt-get install kernel-image-2.2.15-sun4cdm
> (unless you feel more comfortable with compiling your own, then do that)
> 
> ...reboot, then:
> 
> apt-get dist-upgrade

Ok, sorry for being clueless, but after spending an hour
or more looking at the debian site (I have a *really* slow modem)
I found a bunch of kernel packages whose names are:

stable  100% kernel-headers-2.0.33_2.0.33-10
stable  100% kernel-headers-2.0.34_2.0.34-4
stable  100% kernel-headers-2.0.35_2.0.35-3
stable  100% kernel-patch-2.0.33-m68k_2.0.33-7
stable   99% kernel-doc-2.1.125_2.1.125-1
stable   99% kernel-doc-2.2.1_2.2.1-1
stable   86% kernel-doc-2.0.35_2.0.35-3
stable   86% kernel-doc-2.0.34-2.0.34-4
stable   86% kernel-doc-2.0.33_2.0.33-10
unstable 67% kernel-patch-2.2.12-sparc_2.2.12-1
frozen   67% kernel-patch-2.2.12-sparc_2.2.12-1
unstable 62% kernel-patch-2.2.14-ide_20000113-2
frozen   62% kernel-patch-2.2.15-ide_20000405-1
unstable 62% kernel-patch-2.2.15-ide_20000405-1
frozen   62% kernel-patch-2.2.14-ide_20000113-2
stable   53% kernel-source-2.0.34_2.0.34-4
unstable 49% kernel-headers-2.2.13_2.2.13-2
unstable 49% kernel-headers-2.2.12_2.2.12-4
unstable 49% kernel-headers-2.2.10_2.2.10-1
frozen   49% kernel-headers-2.2.15_2.2.15pre20-1

None of them say "...sun4cdm".  I realize I am looking
for sources and not images.... but... the numbers don't
match either.

I suppose I want kernel-source-2.0.34_2.0.34-4 and
kernel_patch-2.2.12-sparc_2.2.12-1.  Do I also need
another patch to bring the level up to 2.2.15 (for
sparc)?  If so, where is it?

If I install the above kernel-source and kernel-patch,
does that include/update the appropriate kernel-headers
and/or kernel-doc?  I suspect it includes kernel-headers
but not kernel-doc?

What do the percentages mean?

Can I apply kernel-patch-2.2.12-sparc_2.2.12-1 to
kernel-source-2.0.34_2.0.34-4?  My guess would have been that
kernel-patch-2.2.12-sparc_2.2.12-1 should be applied
to a 2.2.12 sparc kernel to produce a 2.2.12-1 sparc kernel.

I'm all confused.

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