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

[Andreas Barth]

* Marco d'Itri (md at Linux.IT) [061117 11:54]:
> On Nov 17, Andreas Barth <aba at not.so.argh.org> wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> Why? 2.2 kernels do not have enough hotplug support that IIRC even if
> hotplug were installed it would be useless.
> And udev can be installed on *any* kernel (as long as it is not already
> running), it will just disable itself until the system is rebooted with
> a recent enough kernel.

hm, doesn't seem to be udev-related, but AFAICS:

To install userland kernel tools (i.e. initramfs*), glibc needs to be upgraded.
To upgrade glibc, we need a newer kernel (i.e. no 2.2).
To install a newer kernel, we need initramfs* to be installed.

We could escape if we either take a 2.6 kernel from sarge, or provide
backported initramfs*-tools.


Cheers,
Andi
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