At Sun, 21 Mar 2004 15:09:35 -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Martin Schulze wrote: > | What does sid have to do with woody? > The problem is that of providing an upgrade path from woody to sarge on > real i386 machines. Glibc (and everything else in userland) in > sarge/sid requires a kernel with the i486 emulation patch for such > machines. There is no such kernel in woody. The kernels in sarge/sid > cannot be installed on a woody system because they require newer > modutils and initrd-tools, which require new glibc. > > The best solution anyone has come up with is to provide a kernel in > woody which can be installed in woody on real i386 machines, and which > includes the i486 emulation patch. Once that is installed, the upgrade > to sarge can then be performed. > > If you have a better solution, be sure to suggest it, but I don't think > there is one. (Recall that the requirement of the 486 emulation patch > was necessary to deal with a major, difficult ABI problem for C++.) > > If you have specific preferences for the form this updated kernel will > take (perhaps you'd prefer a patched version of 2.4.19?), hash it out > with Herbert. I don't particularly care what form it takes, as long as > there's a way to upgrade a real i386 from woody to sarge without going > outside Debian. > > This must be solved before sarge can be released, given the consensus > that i386 support was not going to be dropped; and there is no known way > to solve it within sid/sarge. It could be done by setting up a special > page on www.debian.org for downloading the patched kernel packages, and > pointing all real i386 users to that in the Sarge release notes; but it > seems much more sensible to put the patched kernel release in a point > update of woody, and point the real i386 users to *that* in the Sarge > release notes. > > Hope this helps explain the problem, why it's 'critical', and why it has > something to do with woody.
Thanks Nathanael, exactly. So, don't we have plan to put newer kernel 2.4.24 into woody? Then I simply put the description which I described the previous mail: > So if "woody" can't have 2.4.24, then should we add message to display > "you need to install kernel 2.4.24 (it's available on the > woody-proposed-updates)" with libc6.preinst? Regards, -- gotom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
