Bug#398924: Conflict between Gnome, udev, hotplug and linux-2.4

[Andreas Barth]

* Steve Langasek (vorlon at debian.org) [061117 11:52]:
> On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 09:15:44AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote:
> 
> > > > When upgrading a 2.4 system, kernel first. It's also the easiest component
> > > > part to rollback.
> 
> > > Kernel first before what?  Before anything else in userspace?
> 
> > Upgrading the kernel means to upgrade udev and also glibc. This is
> > entirly possible.
> 
> > We have one problematic case, though: Upgrades from 2.2 to 2.6 on an
> > arch without 2.4-kernels. Do we need udev-backports for them?
> 
> The only arch with 2.2 kernels in sarge is m68k though, which isn't
> releasing with etch.  The m68k porters should surely be consulted about how
> they want to handle this.

I know of at least one powerpc-subarchitecture that has no 2.4 kernels.
I need to check whether they have working 2.6 kernels in sarge, or not.


Cheers,
Andi
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