Package: release-notes
Tags: patch
Hi,
please consider appliing following attached patches for lenny r-n:
issues.dbk
* Delete section about KDE - it was relevant for Etch
* Hint the users to update from emacs21 -> emacs22
whats-new.dbk
* Delete news about new default inet superdaemon - this happened in Etch
* Delete news about ext2/ext3 features - this happened in Etch
* Delete para about switching from kernel 2.4 to 2.6
- users were supposed to do that with Etch
* Delete kernel news about renaming packages, dropping 386 and
turning on SMP by default - this all happened in Etch
* Delete section about initrd generators - this was issue for Etch
* Mention new kernel flavour openvz
* Mention dropping -k7 flavour in favor of -686
More cleaning is needed in upgrading.dbk (there are still remarks
about xfree86), maybe next time.
--
Miroslav Kure
Index: whats-new.dbk
===
--- whats-new.dbk (revision 5910)
+++ whats-new.dbk (working copy)
@@ -386,18 +386,6 @@
-New default inet superdaemon
-
-
-The default inet superdaemon for &releasename; is openbsd-inetd instead of netkit-inetd. It will not be started if no
-services are configured, which is true by default. The new default daemon will
-be installed automatically on upgrade.
-
-
-
-
New default syslog daemon
@@ -418,28 +406,6 @@
-Changes in default features for ext2/ext3
-
-
-New ext2 and ext3 file systems will be created with features
-dir_index and resize_inode enabled by
-default. The first feature speeds up operations on directories with many
-files; the second makes it possible to resize a file system on-line (i.e.
-while it is mounted).
-
-
-Users upgrading from &oldreleasename; could consider adding the
-dir_index flag manually using
-tune2fs The flag
-filetype should already be set on most file systems,
-except possibly on systems installed before &oldreleasename;. ; the
-resize_inode flag cannot be added to an existing file
-system. It is possible to check which flags are set for a file system using
-dumpe2fs -h.
-
-
-
-
Better support for UTF-8
@@ -471,53 +437,35 @@
gives an overview of the most important changes; potential issues and
information on how to work around them is included in later chapters.
-
-If you are currently using a 2.4 kernel, you should read carefully.
-
Changes in kernel packaging
TODO: Is there anything new in Lenny?
-
-Kernel packages renamed
+
+OpenVZ kernel flavour
-All Linux kernel packages have been renamed from
-kernel-* to linux-* to clean up
-the namespace. This will make it easier to include non-Linux kernels
-in Debian in the future.
+Along with Linux-VServer container solution introduced in
+&oldreleasename; &debian; now provides pre-build kernel images for
+OpenVZ, another containter solution. OpenVZ offers some nice features
+over Linux-VServer (like live migration) at the expense of a slightly
+higher overhead.
-Flavor 386 replaced with 486
+Kernel x86 packages unified
-As support for 80386 processors was dropped with &oldreleasename;, the
-386 kernel flavor has now been dropped as well and replaced by a new
-486 flavor.
+In previous releases there was special -k7 kernel
+flavour for 32-bit AMD Athlon/Duron/Sempron processors. This flavour
+was dropped and was replaced by a single variant -686
+which handles all AMD/Intel/VIA 686 class processors.
-
-Standard kernels have SMP abilities
-
-
-No news here.
-
-
-Multiprocessor systems no longer require an *-smp
-flavor of the Linux kernel. For &arch-title;,
-linux-image packages without the
--smp suffix support both uniprocessor and
-multiprocessor systems. (The one exception is the 486 flavor, which
-only supports a single processor.)
-
-
-
Where possible, dummy transition packages that depend on the new packages have
@@ -525,36 +473,7 @@
-
-New utilities to generate initrds
-
-The Debian kernel image packages for &arch-title; require an initrd
-for booting the system. Because of changes in the kernel, the utility
-used to generate initrds in &oldreleasename;, initrd-tools is not included anymore.
-Two new utilities have been developed that replace
-it: initramfs-tools and
-yaird. The concepts behind
-the new utilities are very different; an overview is available on the
-Debian
-Wiki. Both will generate an initrd using the
-initramfs file system, which is a compressed
-cpio archive. The default and recommended utility
-is initramfs-tools.
-yaird is not included in &releasename;.
-
-
-Upgrading to a &releasename; kernel will cause initramfs-tools to be installed by default. If you
-are upgrading from a 2.4 kernel to a 2.6 Debian kernel, you must use
-initramfs-tools.
-TODO: Remove? yaird is not in lenny!
-Using yaird will cause linux-image-2.6
-installations to fail if you are running a 2.2 or 2.4 kernel.
-
-
-
EmdebianEmdebian 1.0 (based on &debian; &releasename; &release;)
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