debian-glibc,
I've seen one person get burned by this, so I was thinking of
something along the lines of the Sparc test in preinst that checks
to see if the kernel version is the minimum required for glibc.
Comments?
c.
--- debian/libc/DEBIAN/preinst.orig 2002-12-02 20:21:46.000000000 -0500
+++ debian/libc/DEBIAN/preinst 2002-12-02 20:31:16.000000000 -0500
@@ -100,6 +100,19 @@
fi
fi
fi
+ # HPPA boxes require latest fixes in the kernel to function properly.
+ if [ "$realarch" = parisc64 ] || [ "$realarch" = parisc ]
+ then
+ kernel_ver=`uname -r`
+ if dpkg --compare-versions "$kernel_ver" lt 2.4.19
+ then
+ echo WARNING: This version of libc6 requires that you be running
+ echo atleast a 2.4.19 kernel in order to work properly. Earlier
+ echo kernels did not provide the proper functionality in order
+ echo for the system to be stable.
+ exit 1
+ fi
+ fi
fi
exit 0
