[gobolinux-users] New rush of packages

[Carlo Calica]

On 3/12/07, Hisham Muhammad <hisham.hm at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/12/07, Lucas C. Villa Real <lucasvr at gobolinux.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Last night a lot of new packages were uploaded to the package store,
> > all of them linked against Glibc 2.5. To ensure that Glibc updates are
> > well done, I've added Scripts >= 2.6.2 to its Dependencies file,
> > together with Linux 2.6.20.
> >
> > For convenience, the Linux 2.6.20 binary package contains both the
> > sanitized sources, kernel modules and image. This allows us to perform
> > the update of Glibc  just like another package, with no special
> > scripts or black magic required. It's just a matter of installing the
> > dependencies asked at install time.
>
> Yes, but how this will affect the bootloader, and people running
> custom kernels? (Sorry about bringing just problems and no solutions.)
>

Not sure how the bootloader can be affected.  I assume the package
overwrites the /S/K/B/kernel symlink.  Even if you build a custom
kernel, there is still a /P/Linux/2.6.20.  For my macbook I have a
special kernel recipe called Linux-Mactel but I don't think anything
like that has been released to the recipe store.  Did a "R/Provides"
file ever get added to Scripts?


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Carlo J. Calica