On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 03:41:48PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm glad to see things finally came around for you. Sorry that there were > > so many problems though. I'll try to resolve the libc6 issue with 2.0.x > > kernels. It appears that there are more people running this old thing than > > I had originally thought :) > > > > Most likely this close to release, I'll just add your (paraphrased) notes > > to the Release Notes for sparc. This should ease other users upgrades > > (sorry again that you had to be the one to do the trial and error :) > > Yikes. His notes are sketchy and scrarey. He says, "reinstall debian > from cd". Is that really a necessary step for upgrading? And which > versino did he reinstall from cd?
Obviously a reinstall is not what I want to suggest. What I want is for people to install the new kernel first, then apt-get upgrade. > It seems to me all we need is either a libc6 or else a > kernel-image-2.2.15-* with a slightly different depends/conflicts > lines... can't we fix this for Potato? Believe me, it will be less > pain to fix this now than later... Impossible, unless I hack libc6's lchown() to not use the kernel's syscall. That is something I don't want to do because it is what got us into this problem in the first place (slink sparc had a hacked lchown so it would work with 2.0.x). -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
