Bug#393092: Sarge - Etch upgrade: no way to prevent removal of running kernel

2006-12-22 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2006-12-22 Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Introduce a dummy initrd-tools in Etch which conflicts with +1 to the Debian version of Etch's libc6? What kind of dummy packages do you think of? An empty one depending on yaird | initramfs-tools | linux-initramfs-tool Would

Bug#393092: Sarge - Etch upgrade: no way to prevent removal of running kernel

2006-12-22 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 07:45:22PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: What kind of dummy packages do you think of? An empty one depending on yaird | initramfs-tools | linux-initramfs-tool Would sarge's kernel work with yaird? cu and- Pretty sure I am missing the whole point - reas If we don't

Bug#393092: Sarge - Etch upgrade: no way to prevent removal of running kernel

2006-12-21 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi release team and initrd-tools maintainer, One issue that seems problematic for people currently upgrading from Sarge to Etch is that there is currently no initrd-tools package in Etch. (I guess it's been removed because of #395181 and/or #393092. Why can't #395181 just be fixed already?) The

Bug#393092: Sarge - Etch upgrade: no way to prevent removal of running kernel

2006-12-21 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 04:44:07PM -0800, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: Hence there is currently *no way* to upgrade Sarge - Etch without the package manager insisting to remove the running kernel package! Ouch. Possible fixes: 1) Fix #395181 so initrd-tools can get back into Etch 2) Make