Hi, On 05-06-2023 04:38, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
On a related issue, something in dpkg or apt should check the CPU features and refuse to perform an upgrade/dist-upgrade on an host whose CPU doesn't meet the new baseline requirements.Please file a bug with the respective packages. Mentioning it in a bug against the release notes isn't going to achieve that feature.Oh, totally. I'm just not sure of which one typically handles this. Last time the baseline was raised from 586 to 686 (before that from 486 to 586), something in the upgrade process performed the CPU check and loudly aborted the proceedings. Something similar was done when the baseline was raised on SPARC ages ago; upgrade aborted early if the host hardware didn't meet the new baseline.
I wasn't aware of that. I *think* dpkg just installs what apt feeds it, so from those two, I'd guess apt. However, it's too late for bookworm to add that now. I thought you meant this mostly as a future enhancement.
Paul
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