On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 10:08:39PM +0200, Maximilian Attems wrote: > On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 08:24:49PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Maximilian Attems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <snipp> > > > also it would be _very_ cool to do the switch after a major upload. > > > just the switch to the newer tools and nothing else. > > > ubuntu has been bitten by this transition. > > > the user won't recognise that the oops is not the kernel fault. > > > the best plan would be to do it after an 2.6.13-1 upload: > > > an 2.6.13-2 with only this change. > > > > If I understand you correctly then that only helps users frewuently > > bringing their system up-to-date, and not someone doing a dist-upgrade > > a year from now... > > the linux-images get _lots_ of bug reports if something fails, > and history tells that user confuse easily initrd-tools and kernel bugs. > they won't notice that their oops is not a kernel trouble, > but eventual broken early userland. > it's about ironing out the changes and having an easy short term fall back.
Well, i feel that they are right in their approach, and i have the strong believe that the kernel team should kind of take care of the other pieces of code needed to make it work, and this include both the initrd-generating tools as well as the bootloaders. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
