What progress has been made and what still needs to be done? Apparently current glibc now has the checking code in glibc to prevent it from being upgraded until *after* the kernel is upgraded (to 2.4.24 or 2.6.0).
However, as Karolina Lindqvist wrote: > You can't install 2.4.24 on a i386 system, since it depends on initrd-tools > (>= 0.1.48) and > modutils (>= 2.4.19) which are not in woody. The SID versions of those require > the new libc6, which in turn require the new kernel running. So how to > upgrade to that kernel on a 386? Andreas Barth wrote: >You add first >deb http://www.backports.org/debian stable initrd-tools module-init-tools >to your apt.sources-list and dist-upgrade only modutils and >initrd-tools. Afterwards, kernel, and afterwards the normal upgrade to >sarge. Obviously this is not really an acceptable upgrade path from woody to sarge! We do want to ensure an straighforward upgrade path from woody on real i386s. Andreas Barth wrote: >Well, to be plain, I think a more recent modutils and initrd-tools >should be added to woody with the next point release, and also a new >kernel image, both for the boot floppies and in the archive, that >emulates 486-opcodes on 386. Also this should be IMHO be noted in >the Release-notes. Is this the plan? This would require new packages in the next point release of woody, before sarge comes out, but I don't see that any progress has been made on that. Replies to the bug trail please. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
