Kernel legacy
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Just to bring that back to discussion: With lenny the provided glibc seems to be incompatible to kernel 2.4. There are many systems out there still running with kernel 2.4 cause stability. (My servers which needs to be stable all run Kernel 2.4.) Is there any scenario what happens to such systems when lenny gets stable? Background: The glibc in lenny is compiled to be incompatible with kernels lower than 2.6. I do not know if there are options to use newer glibc with older kernels. Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen kl...@ethgen.de Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57 3C 88 26 2B -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBSYXNNp+OKpjRpO3lAQo6eQgAqIM/MKgKne7jiZRJDvDOQaNIHuWI1CJg 6noj1nwuS0M0YdFZea5lu2k25b7B1CAho6XNT3mOiZyL8i3zdImK0iQo5D0MX73B F+x05F3h3Mj+Wg4A6lg05mOibcQ2cusOb1fdYa5uN7Frrwq1y4jSovuTPqSfNiyQ xGlkfx+xnbwDjnhCIyz8rW/Mj7UgUKlOxkte2jZ3UVfsPNreZpy8BLclFqrJZOyi lvQzXQMNHJQ/z1v3CZrbM3zxw8/4J8SlFUdms57X/FZHo3WGeRkz4ZX1f16cnCvl +it2gatUvvr6bv+iUmRp8Di/Bfmnt9BZSOzGI9ecwezwKBrN8NHrBA== =Wyn8 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Kernel legacy
Klaus Ethgen kl...@ethgen.de writes: Background: The glibc in lenny is compiled to be incompatible with kernels lower than 2.6. I do not know if there are options to use newer glibc with older kernels. There is other software in lenny that isn't built to be compatible with older kernels as well. For example, slapd is built to use epoll, which won't work with 2.4 kernels. I suspect you will discover others that the package maintainer may not even be aware of. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Kernel legacy
Klaus Ethgen wrote: Just to bring that back to discussion: With lenny the provided glibc seems to be incompatible to kernel 2.4. There are many systems out there still running with kernel 2.4 cause stability. (My servers which needs to be stable all run Kernel 2.4.) s/lenny/etch/ Is there any scenario what happens to such systems when lenny gets stable? etch is already stable Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Kernel legacy
On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 05:26:30PM +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote: With lenny the provided glibc seems to be incompatible to kernel 2.4. The Linux 2.4 support ended with the Etch release. Even for Etch it is only supported for upgrades. Is there any scenario what happens to such systems when lenny gets stable? Fix the kernel support in newer versions. Bastian -- Suffocating together ... would create heroic camaraderie. -- Khan Noonian Singh, Space Seed, stardate 3142.8 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Kernel legacy
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Am So den 1. Feb 2009 um 18:57 schrieb Luk Claes: With lenny the provided glibc seems to be incompatible to kernel 2.4. There are many systems out there still running with kernel 2.4 cause stability. (My servers which needs to be stable all run Kernel 2.4.) s/lenny/etch/ ? lenny is still correct. etch runs fine with kernel 2.4 (and lower by the way). Is there any scenario what happens to such systems when lenny gets stable? etch is already stable Yes, etch is but not lenny. Gruß Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen kl...@ethgen.de Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57 3C 88 26 2B -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBSYYiqJ+OKpjRpO3lAQr4Hwf+O7kXdJzp5t6k2Y+kkfFYIYsY7RCqzMcn cc1QYigdx51Nmy7XNOAXMECsaS1/Z+1egaTzxzKSvN2M02uimJn47zcnZYM/FQJF /u8fMzaGmayVDwLh+pt1kxcP1vA4zr9TZDiBBg3cbWvkSWPZVM7oyyd95y2wTAf2 7cvClfpb53MvXwgCNYWpwuILYPFBL2Y9elHYhuSujex/Ug1Nf0F0Ie1ZrROByXBW SUCoh2TSxR1A/h89xeuiWqKpKamFYu3zUXLCB96mrEeZVA1V0pzrpza92cmbqA8l +zKNBSqNXG1GTdjnLVIpt8uSy1PvpD6Tzm9wbLBBKiPAwjvp+7uLZg== =N0+s -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Kernel legacy
On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 23:31 +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Am So den 1. Feb 2009 um 18:57 schrieb Luk Claes: With lenny the provided glibc seems to be incompatible to kernel 2.4. There are many systems out there still running with kernel 2.4 cause stability. (My servers which needs to be stable all run Kernel 2.4.) Since 2.4 is not supported by Debian and is barely supported by a few kernel developers, it is hardly the stable option. If you are aware of specific unfixed bugs in Linux 2.6, I suggest you report them. s/lenny/etch/ ? lenny is still correct. etch runs fine with kernel 2.4 (and lower by the way). Maybe it works for you, but it is not supported. This was made fairly clear in the release notes: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#s-newkernel, http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#s-incompatible-2.4. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
