At Tue, 30 Mar 2004 10:46:25 +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > GOTO Masanori wrote: > > > That would only help mips. > > > > > > I wonder what a mips machine would need with an i486 emulator. > > > > > > For IA-32 we would have to patch 2.4.18, but we cannot properly > > > update those packages in woody without people losing their > > > modules (would hurt a bit on laptops...). So that's a no-go. > > > > So you don't have any intenstion to install new 2.4 kernel with > > i486 emulation patch. > > Exactly, since this would harm all notebook users. > > > > Hence, the upgrade directory for real 80386 machines. > > > > What does it mean? > > I thought that I've explained this already: > > I have another solution to propose: Provide an upgrade-for-real-i386 > directory, including a README and kernel packages to install before > upgrading to sarge. We've done a similar thing from bo->potato or > something. > > This will require coordination with the release manager and the > ftpmasters to provide dists/sarge/main/upgrade-i386 which should > contain the kernel packages and a readme file.
That's nice solution if it's acceptable. > > If there is no plan to support upgrade-path for i386 machines, then I > > Nobody said that there is no plan to support an upgrade-path for i386 > machines. We just cannot simply replace the kernel in the stable > distribution anymore due to fucked up dependencies and kernel > vulnerabilities. > > > put the message "Use woody-proposed-updates 2.4.24 kernel" at > > libc6.preinst for 80386 machine. Then, we don't need to change the > > current woody kernels. I think it's the simplest fix. Is it OK? > > No. Packages will eventually vanish from the proposed-updates > directory. We'll need an upgrade-i386 directory as we've had a couple > of releases before. Ah, I understand why my proposal is not good. Martin, thanks for pointing it out. So... I don't add "use woody-proposed-updates" message into libc6.preinst, I keep them as the current one. I think Bug#231538 can be closed when 2.3.2.ds1-12 is released. But the current thread is useful for keeping discussing to make dists/sarge/main/upgrade-i386 for the near future sarge release. I would clone this bug and reassign it to ftp.debian.org or ftp-master. Nathanael, OK? Regards, -- gotom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
