586 kernels.

seth vidal skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Wed Jun 20 19:21:08 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 15:10 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 02:48:50PM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
>  > On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 14:46 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
>  > > On Wednesday 20 June 2007 14:44:54 seth vidal wrote:
>  > > > so, umm
>  > > > we're going to have users 'ugprading' from kernel.i586 to kernel.i386?
>  > > > Is that right?
>  > > 
>  > > They'd be going from i686 to i386 too it would seem.
>  > > 
>  > > My brain just screams that this is confusing, but I'm not coming up with any 
>  > > hard problems yet.  Can you do up a scratch build for us to play with Dave?
>  > > 
>  > 
>  > just so we're clear, yum won't 'upgrade' a kernel from i686 to i386 and
>  > let's not even start thinking about what this will mean for kernel
>  > modules.
> 
> Yeah. The alternative is that I un-kill 586, and we continue shipping
> that forever.  (Or we just tell those 38 586 users to go make their
> own spin).

according to what jesse just said we're also talking about it for all of
our i686 kernel users, too. Or was that mis-said?

-sv





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