On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 01:25:39PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [-- You may want as a background to this question to read #428655. --] > > We have users that still run etch with 2.4 kernels. Though, when > they'll upgrade to lenny, it will completely destroy their upgrade path, > in ways that are quite hard to figure out for a beginner. > > > I'd suggest that very very very soon, e.g. it would be more than nice > in .r1 we add in some core package (e.g. the libc ?) a critical debconf > note (or alike) that warns the user about that issue, and urge him to > upgrade his kernel. > > I know release notes already advise strongly to migrate, but we must > do better than that. IMHO that's quite critical, because it's impossible > to install a 2.6 kernel from lenny/sid without having the libc 2.5 installed > first.
Isn't it impossible to run a 2.5 libc with a 2.4 kernel ? If so, there is a chicken and egg problem... if someone is running a 2.4 kernel, she can't upgrade to the 2.5 libc, and without the 2.5 libc, she can't upgrade to a 2.6 kernel... Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
