Re: Status of Kernel 2.4.28 packages?

2005-01-09 Thread Joshua Kwan
Horms wrote: Debian isn't lowering priority on Linux 2.4 work but individual people are. I am one of the people who do work on 2.4 for debian, I won't raise the hands of others. Personally my focus is 2.4.27, because that is what will go into sarge and right now I don't have the time to do

Re: Status of Kernel 2.4.28 packages?

2005-01-06 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 09:23:18PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 08:02:25PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: Converting to udev is an additional step, and caused me a lot more work than the basic 2.6 upgrade (mostly getting my head around it, and converting from usbmgr).

Re: Status of Kernel 2.4.28 packages?

2005-01-06 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 08:44:13AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 09:23:18PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 08:02:25PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: Converting to udev is an additional step, and caused me a lot more work than the basic 2.6

Re: Status of Kernel 2.4.28 packages?

2005-01-06 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 12:33:00PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: AOL. magicdev works just fine to do essentially the same thing as gnome-volume-manager. I don't use magicdev either. I really prefer to mount my storage device myself. Call me a control-freak.

Re: Status of Kernel 2.4.28 packages?

2005-01-06 Thread Horms
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 09:18:33PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 08:16:44PM +, Tim Cutts wrote: 2.6 is still too new as far as most ISVs are concerned, and so Debian shouldn't lower the priority of work on 2.4 kernels too much just yet, in my opinion.

Re: Status of Kernel 2.4.28 packages?

2005-01-05 Thread Paul Hampson
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 08:02:25PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: On 02-Jan-05, 15:54 (CST), Stephan Niemz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way, is there a guide somewhere telling how to switch an unstable system from 2.4 to 2.6? apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.whatever Also

Re: Status of Kernel 2.4.28 packages?

2005-01-05 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 08:02:25PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: Converting to udev is an additional step, and caused me a lot more work than the basic 2.6 upgrade (mostly getting my head around it, and converting from usbmgr). Converting to udev is in no way a part of converting to a 2.6

Re: Status of Kernel 2.4.28 packages?

2005-01-04 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Stephan Niemz may or may not have written... On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 20:02:25 -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: Converting to udev is an additional step, and caused me a lot more work than the basic 2.6 upgrade (mostly getting my head around it, and converting from usbmgr). Yes,

Re: Status of Kernel 2.4.28 packages?

2005-01-04 Thread roberto
Quoting Darren Salt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I demand that Stephan Niemz may or may not have written... On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 20:02:25 -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: Converting to udev is an additional step, and caused me a lot more work than the basic 2.6 upgrade (mostly getting my head

Re: Status of Kernel 2.4.28 packages?

2005-01-03 Thread Stephan Niemz
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 20:02:25 -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: Converting to udev is an additional step, and caused me a lot more work than the basic 2.6 upgrade (mostly getting my head around it, and converting from usbmgr). Yes, converting from devfs to udev is one thing that doesn't

Re: Status of Kernel 2.4.28 packages?

2005-01-03 Thread Christoph Hellwig
By the way, is there a guide somewhere telling how to switch an unstable system from 2.4 to 2.6? An install of the appropinquate kernel-image package should do it. At least it did for me on various ppc and an x86_64 installed as i386 system.

Re: Status of Kernel 2.4.28 packages?

2005-01-03 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 10:19:57AM +0100, Stephan Niemz wrote: Yes, converting from devfs to udev is one thing that doesn't seem to be easy. Another one is the ISDN support. Hasn't that changed significantly, too? And what's going to happen with /etc/modutils/*, how much manual tweaking

Status of Kernel 2.4.28 packages?

2005-01-02 Thread Stephan Niemz
The kernel version 2.4.28 is out for almost seven weeks now. Does anybody know about the status of the corresponding Debian packages? And is there an estimation for when the kernel-patch-* packages will support the new kernel version? Thanks, - Stephan. signature.asc Description:

Re: Status of Kernel 2.4.28 packages?

2005-01-02 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 07:37:59PM +0100, Stephan Niemz wrote: The kernel version 2.4.28 is out for almost seven weeks now. Does anybody know about the status of the corresponding Debian packages? And is there an estimation for when the kernel-patch-* packages will support the new kernel

Re: Status of Kernel 2.4.28 packages?

2005-01-02 Thread Tim Cutts
On 2 Jan 2005, at 7:16 pm, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 07:37:59PM +0100, Stephan Niemz wrote: The kernel version 2.4.28 is out for almost seven weeks now. Does anybody know about the status of the corresponding Debian packages? And is there an estimation for when the

Re: Status of Kernel 2.4.28 packages?

2005-01-02 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 08:16:44PM +, Tim Cutts wrote: 2.6 is still too new as far as most ISVs are concerned, and so Debian shouldn't lower the priority of work on 2.4 kernels too much just yet, in my opinion. Debian isn't lowering priority on Linux 2.4 work but individual people are.

Re: Status of Kernel 2.4.28 packages?

2005-01-02 Thread Stephan Niemz
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 20:16:19 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: Any reason you're not using 2.6 kernels? Yes. I'd like to switch to 2.6, but I suspect it would break certain things. There are too many changes and I don't have the time to go through this at the moment. Still I'd like to

Re: Status of Kernel 2.4.28 packages?

2005-01-02 Thread Steve Greenland
On 02-Jan-05, 15:54 (CST), Stephan Niemz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way, is there a guide somewhere telling how to switch an unstable system from 2.4 to 2.6? apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.whatever Seriously, that Worked For Me. It wasn't a big deal. However, as usual, It depends: If