Hi, On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 09:22:13PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Apr 25, Andreas Mohr <a...@lisas.de> wrote: > > > While the current init script version does check for some prominent > > environment setup items, at least on my system given my custom-built > > kernels I violated README.gz items CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED (ouch), > This one is checked in preinst and it aborts the upgrade if you are > running the lenny kernel and not upgrading it at the same time.
Indeed, I've already been wondering about this: I didn't have _any_ Debian-provided kernel installed any more, and I (thus obviously) did _not_ get the kernel package upgraded in one go, too. Yet it seems udev did get upgraded up to a version with incompatible requirements anyway. (most likely because I was missing the standard Debian kernel package which would have that compatibility check activated in the first place? ;-P) Unfortunately I did not run an upgrade script, thus I don't have any log of the upgrade procedure, but I'm afraid this is what may have happened. > Newer kernels removed the compatibility links which the check tested, > but I improved it in 167-3. > So I am not sure that it would be useful to repeat the check in the init > script, and I think that it could make some upgrade scenarios much > harder to handle. The check in the init script could simply be a passive check with a warning message, but indeed it's questionable whether this would be useful. Much better to try to figure out a way to prevent the upgrade situation that it seems I had from occurring in the first place. > > > CONFIG_TMPFS_POSIX_ACL and CONFIG_BLK_DEV_BSG. > Do you know a cheap way to test for these? Anyway, lack of these > features is not supposed to cause problems except for sound and tape > devices. Thought so (especially since they are found at the bottom of the list). I'm currently attempting to recover from this problem (doing some minor network setup emergency hardcoding, installed standard Debian kernel and migrated to libata-compatible configuration, building my own corrected kernel, ...). Thank you very much for your fast reply! Andreas Mohr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
