Bug#310005: no aptitude on mips/mipsel on Woody, upgrade kernels needed.

[<allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 04:31:03AM +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
> Package: upgrade-reports
> Severity: serious
> 
> - Did any packages fail to upgrade?
> yes, libc6. needs newer kernel.
> 
> Further Comments/Problems:
> 
> doing upgrade tests here, and doing it from what the release notes say,
> i just discovered that there is _NO_ aptitude in woody for mips/mipsel.
> 
> So documentation MUST mention to first install aptitude from sarge (and
> it's depends) before doing the rest of the upgrade with aptitude.

This part of the bug report is resolved: The mips release notes now
read:

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4.5.1 Updating the package list

First the list of available packages for the new release needs to be fetched. This is done by executing[2]:

     # apt-get update

4.5.2 Upgrading aptitude

Upgrade tests have shown that sarge's version of aptitude is better at solving the complex dependencies during an upgrade than either apt-get or woody's aptitude. It should therefore be installed first using:

     # apt-get install aptitude

aptitude will show you a list of the changes that will be made and ask you to confirm them. You should take a careful look at the proposed changes, especially packages that will be removed by the upgrade, before you confirm.
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> Upgrading also fails because libc6 needs a newer kernel. (2.4.22)

Now the release notes include:

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4.3 Checking kernel support

On Mips machines you will need to upgrade to a newer kernel version first before upgrading the system. This is necessary because of a inconsistent definition of the inter process communication of the new libc and the kernel, so you need an updated kernel that provides the correct definition first.
4.3.1 Upgrading the kernel

If (and only if) the previous section indicates that you should upgrade your kernel before the upgrade of the system, you should do so now.

Detailed instructions on how to install the new kernel can be found in Upgrading the kernel, Appendix A.
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[appendice A is 
<http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/mips/release-notes/ap-kernel-upgrade-howto.en.html>]

Martin, could you check if everything is documented properly and close
this bug ?

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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