On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 10:14:11AM +1000, Aaron Daniels wrote: > Hi, > I recently upgraded my slink sparc5 box to potato. > During the upgrade it told me that to upgrade libc6 I needed to install 2.2.7 > or > higher kernel. > I did so, but this is a production box and I dont really feel safe running a > kernel that unstable.
What makes you think the kernel is unstable? Kernel versioning is: major.minor.revision (e.g, 2.2.7, 2.3.99) Unstable kernels are when the minor number is odd (i.e 2.3.99 ); revision does not indicate anything to do with stability. Thus: 2.0.x, 2.2.x, 2.4.x, are stable and 2.1.x and 2.3.x are unstable. > So my Questions are. > 1. is that libc6 error a requirement or a recomendation. > 2. is the 2.2.7 kernel stable enough for production use. There are a number of problems with 2.2.7 (though I don't know which specifically affect Sparcs). You should, as much as possible, be running the latest kernel which I believe is 2.2.15 Anand
