Re: Is this acceptable?
pitts2@memphisonline.com (Stephen Pitts) writes:
> The official word on the 2.1.x kernels is that they are not supported
> under Debian and that the Debian people will wait until 2.2 to upgrade
> all neccessary stuff. 2.1.x won't even compile out of the box on Debian
> 1.1.x (or so I've heard), so its risky to put out a binary that requires
> it. I would avoid it if possible and stick with 5.2.[16,18], which
> everyone has.
Actually you have the dependency backwards. 2.1 kernels require libc5
5.4, not vice-versa.
And you certainly can run a 2.1 kernel on a Debian machine upgraded to
the packages in rex. Unless it proves to be too difficult, we will
support running 2.1 kernels. For example, modules_2.0.0-12 was
recently released with the major change being that it will work with
2.1 kernels.
Guy
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