On Sat, Nov 06, 1999 at 03:07:06PM +0100, Sven Esbjerg wrote: > Hi > > Does anyone know what the status of Sparc Potato is? I tried to install it > last night but it ended up in a conflict between the kernel version (2.2.1) > and libc6 which needed at least kernel 2.2.7. The latter kernel was not > available anywhere which made it impossible to install. Furthermore I couldn't > downgrade to Slink and I ended up installing Slink from scratch. > Now I'm wondering if the Sparc branch is taken as seriosly as the Intel > branch. Anyone? > > Btw. The machine was a MicroSparc 4 70MHz.
Yes it is taken very seriously. The 2.2.13 images should be installed now, check the mirrors again please. As far as the problem you have with the conflict, it seems you have a sun4m arch, which does have problems with glibc 2.1 with less than a 2.2.7 kernel. I need to reverify this for potato release, but all the way through 2.1.2pre, this problem was evident. Thus we forced a conflict to prevent breaking the system completely (seems you still had a problem, though I am not sure why). Note, that you can put libc6 on hold, and just upgrade the rest of the system. Be assured that all of this will be in the release notes once we near release. Ben
