[gobolinux-devel] Upgrading Glibc

[Jonas Karlsson]

On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 05:58:54 +0200, Hisham Muhammad <hisham.hm at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On 4/4/07, Carlo Calica <carlo at calica.com> wrote:
>> On 4/3/07, Michael Homer <gobo-users-dufus at wotfun.com> wrote:
>> > On 4/4/07, Jeremy Visser <jeremy.visser at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > http://www.gobolinux.org/download/kernel/ has only 2.6.17. I will  
>> look
>> > > in Manager when I get a chance and see if it's there anyway.
>> >
>> > I wasn't even aware that existed. I assume it's obsolete, since there
>> > are standard packages now.
>>
>> May be a good idea to put a page on www.gobolinux.org/download/kernel/
>> explaining to use "InstallPackage Linux" instead.
>
> Done that (a quick hack). If anybody finds any links still pointing to
> that URL, let me know (or if it's in the wiki, feel free to go ahead
> and clean it up :) ).
>
> So, it's a consensus that the kernel should be distributed as a
> package from now on? I tried to bring this issue up on the other
> thread, related to the handling of unmanaged files.
>
I do agree that the kernel should be a package, but I rather see it as a  
special package, with special handling inside InstallPackage, so that  
files aren't copied around the system, instead of using unmanaged files.  
But then again modules can't be symlinks, unless we patch the module init  
tools. On the other hand, directories can be symlinks, so we can have a  
link, /System/Kernel/Modules/Current -> /Programs/Linux/Current/Modules or  
similar, but then there's problem with packages that provide their own  
modules. Something similar for the kernel image itself (that can be a  
link, right?). However then we have the problem with partitioning and  
booting, as /S/K/B and /P can be on different partitions.

I'd rather see that we try to find the best way to do this instead of  
going with what is easiest with what we have today (unmanaged files).  
Perhaps we decide that unmanaged files is the way to go anyway, but we  
should find out what the alternatives are.

-- 
/Jonas

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