Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: >>As far as I know there is no NPTL support in 2.4 debian kernels (as for >>example in some RedHat 2.4 kernels). Is that correct? >>In that case I will have to add a dependency on kernel-image-2.6 > > Bad idea. On my systems, there is no kernel-image installed at all- > I compile them myself. I bet I'm not the only one. > That's what I do, too. But I am using kernel-package to compile my kernels, so that in the end I am having a package installed that correctly provides the dependency I need.
> > You can check in the preinst if the running kernel is new enough, > but that is about all you can do. > But this happens only after you have downloaded the whole package and leaves you with a broken one. So I don't think that would be an acceptable solution. Best wishes, Martin. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
