Re: making udev require 2.6.15 kernels

2006-02-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 12:32:21AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > Now that 2.6.15 kernels are in testing I'd like to raise the kernel > requirement for the udev package from 2.6.12 to 2.6.15 as soon as a new > version of udev will have entered testing. > This will let me remove a lot of cruft from th

Re: Preparation of the next stable Debian GNU/Linux update (I)

2006-02-10 Thread Martin Schulze
Steve Langasek wrote: > > * Accepted albatross > > * Accepted antiword > > * Investigation of cernlib > > * Investigation of clamav > > * Accepted crawl > > * Moved evms from further to accept > > * Accepted mantis > > * Accepted perl > > * Accepted sudo > > Are you aware of the complaint

Re: making udev require 2.6.15 kernels

2006-02-10 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 07:57:25AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > We need something which upgrades seamlessly, and the above solution is not > acceptable for the etch release, as has been said already in the past. Hmm. Are there problems with the following: - Upgrade works but asks the not yet comple

Re: udeb migration now that 2.6.15 is in testing

2006-02-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 01:30:19PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Frans Pop wrote: > > I'm not sure how the following package should be hinted as it used to have > > a deb, but now only has a udeb: > > network-console > network-console-config needs to be removed from testing (should happen > semiauto

Re: binNMU for approx

2006-02-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 03:26:35PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > approx still depends on ocaml-base-nox-3.09.0 on hppa, m68k, mips, > mipsel, s390. Could you trigger a binNMU on these architectures for the > transition to 3.09.1? Queued. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a le

Re: making udev require 2.6.15 kernels

2006-02-10 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Feb 10, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We need something which upgrades seamlessly, and the above solution is not > acceptable for the etch release, as has been said already in the past. This would be nice, but so far nobody has been able to design anything better, myself included. >

Re: making udev require 2.6.15 kernels

2006-02-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 10:45:04AM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 07:57:25AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > We need something which upgrades seamlessly, and the above solution is not > > acceptable for the etch release, as has been said already in the past. > Hmm. Are there p

Re: making udev require 2.6.15 kernels

2006-02-10 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 02:37:21AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > Anyway, I don't see that this is a very good solution. Disabling all of the > available boot options for the system doesn't prevent incidental breakage, > it just changes the *kind* of incidental breakage you get. It makes it impos

Re: udeb migration now that 2.6.15 is in testing

2006-02-10 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 04:13:54PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > Now that 2.6.15 is in testing (Yay!) let's migrate the udebs that waited > on that to happen. > > unblock user-setup/2.12r-6 > unblock cdebconf/0.97 # 8 days old currently > > I'm not sure how the following package should be h

Re: making udev require 2.6.15 kernels

2006-02-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 12:07:11PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 02:37:21AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Anyway, I don't see that this is a very good solution. Disabling all of the > > available boot options for the system doesn't prevent incidental breakage, > > it jus

Re: making udev require 2.6.15 kernels

2006-02-10 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Marco d'Itri said: > On Feb 10, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > We need something which upgrades seamlessly, and the above solution is not > > acceptable for the etch release, as has been said already in the past. > This would be nice, but so far nobody ha

Re: making udev require 2.6.15 kernels

2006-02-10 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 11:27:12AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Feb 10, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > We need something which upgrades seamlessly, and the above solution is not > > acceptable for the etch release, as has been said already in the past. > This would be nice, but so

Re: making udev require 2.6.15 kernels

2006-02-10 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Feb 10, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The 2.6.8 kernel is already running, and the kernel upgrade needs a reboot > anyway, so, we only need something that : > > - don't mess up the currently running stuff, is it possible to have udev > installed to take effect after the next r

Re: making udev require 2.6.15 kernels

2006-02-10 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >In this case, does itmake any sense to treat the two versions of udev >similarly to how we treat library transitions? I.e., rename the new >udev to udev-$min-kernel-ver or something? (the name is ugly, but you It's not clear which problem this would solve, exactly. --

Re: making udev require 2.6.15 kernels

2006-02-10 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 01:54:37PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Feb 10, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The 2.6.8 kernel is already running, and the kernel upgrade needs a reboot > > anyway, so, we only need something that : > > > > - don't mess up the currently running stuff, i

Re: BinNMUs for netcdf transition.

2006-02-10 Thread Daniel Kobras
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 08:48:57PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 05:10:28PM +0100, Daniel Kobras wrote: > > > Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >gri > > Only needed on i386, it seems. Not (automatically) binNMUable because tarball ships read-only debian/changel

Re: making udev require 2.6.15 kernels

2006-02-10 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Feb 10, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 1) sarge-udev & etch-udev install concurently, maybe using the divert or > > > alternative mechanism to not overwrite their files. > > As I explained, I do not believe that on-disk co-existence of two udev > > packages is feasible. > Mmm,

Re: making udev require 2.6.15 kernels

2006-02-10 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 03:45:28AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > Then what does this have to do with the problem people are trying to solve? > The problem is that there is *no* kernel available in sarge that meets the > needs of the etch udev and lvm packages, and as a result people have to > inst

Re: making udev require 2.6.15 kernels

2006-02-10 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 04:52:50PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Feb 10, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > 1) sarge-udev & etch-udev install concurently, maybe using the divert > > > > or > > > > alternative mechanism to not overwrite their files. > > > As I explained, I do n

Re: making udev require 2.6.15 kernels

2006-02-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 01:41:55PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 11:27:12AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > On Feb 10, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > We need something which upgrades seamlessly, and the above solution is not > > > acceptable for the etch release,

Re: making udev require 2.6.15 kernels

2006-02-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 07:54:01PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 03:45:28AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Then what does this have to do with the problem people are trying to solve? > > The problem is that there is *no* kernel available in sarge that meets the > > needs o

Re: making udev require 2.6.15 kernels

2006-02-10 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 01:21:22PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > - Doesn't fuck the system if you lose power part-way through the >dist-upgrade after udev has been unpacked and no newer kernel has been >installed. Hehe, never thougth about that. i guess that having udev depend on a kerne

Re: making udev require 2.6.15 kernels

2006-02-10 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 01:30:51PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > No, they need to reboot after installing udev/lvm, not before. > Then you've once again left the user without any assurance that their system > is bootable at the end of the udev/lvm install. Which is the same than the other way a

Re: making udev require 2.6.15 kernels

2006-02-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 10:45:23PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 01:21:22PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > - Doesn't fuck the system if you lose power part-way through the > >dist-upgrade after udev has been unpacked and no newer kernel has been > >installed. > Heh

Re: Preparation of the next stable Debian GNU/Linux update (I)

2006-02-10 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 10:37:38 +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > > there was some discussion[1] wether the next stable update could have > > some timezone data updated in the glibc package. > > Show me the changes. > > Unless large chunks of the world are affected I don

Re: making udev require 2.6.15 kernels

2006-02-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 10:57:27PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 01:30:51PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > No, they need to reboot after installing udev/lvm, not before. > > Then you've once again left the user without any assurance that their system > > is bootable at t

Re: BinNMUs for netcdf transition.

2006-02-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 04:19:05PM +0100, Daniel Kobras wrote: > On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 08:48:57PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 05:10:28PM +0100, Daniel Kobras wrote: > > > Helen Faulkner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >labplot > Dep-Waits on current vtk on m68k. hppa bu

Re: making udev require 2.6.15 kernels

2006-02-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 04:52:50PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Feb 10, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 1) sarge-udev & etch-udev install concurently, maybe using the divert > > > > or > > > > alternative mechanism to not overwrite their files. > > > As I explained, I do not

Re: making udev require 2.6.15 kernels

2006-02-10 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 04:20:02PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > This means you're not guaranteed to get /usr/sbin/sshd, which many admins > use exclusively for system administration where remote kvm is not an > affordable option. That's a pretty big problem. Maybe we need a sshd in /sbin then,