On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 11:54:38AM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote: > On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 10:42:12PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > It's come to my attention that on mips(el), the glibc in sarge is > > incompatible with the kernel in woody, and the kernel in sarge is > > incompatible with the glibc in woody. This is an impasse that has to be > > resolved for sarge's release, so that upgrades from woody to sarge can > > be supported. > > What exactly is the issue with kernels in sarge running on woody?
As I understand it, it's emulation of missing instructions on certain hardware (at least, that's the case on i386). > I'm running 2.4.22 without any problems since several months on mips > now. We could then simply add to the release notes that on woody > upgrades the kernel has to be updated first, then glibc. Modern kernel packages have dependencies that require a glibc newer than that in woody. To break this deadlock, we need upgrade kernel packages so that there's something to which we can point users in the release notes. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
