On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 10:41:24AM +0200, Martin-�ric Racine wrote: > On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > > Inteesting question. One could install a kernel by hand (not as a > > package). Thus a runtime test would probably be more suited. > > The problem with a runtime test i.e. in the package's pre-install script, is > by > the time you try it, the libc binaries have already been unpacked and have > probably overwritten the older ones.
Debian preinst scripts are run before the package is unpacked. However I looked in libc6's preinst and postinst and couldn't find this test at all (2.3.1-5). > 2) if there really is no other way e.g. because recent bug fixes in the > pa-risc > kernel branch were performed, then the libc6 package should at least depend on > some specific kernel-image version (or newer), to prevent disasters. > > Besides, this is Debian; we have the kernel-package and people should use it. > Therefore, if this new libc6 depends upon specific kernels, it should not be a > problem to have the package actually mandate that, by having > kernel-image-2.4.19 > or newer as a dependency. There's no requirement to user a standard kernel-image package or even kernel-package to build the kernel. However, the libc could Conflict with kernel < 2.4.19 and that would help at least some percentage of the users. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
