26 Apr
2009
26 Apr
'09
1:27 p.m.
On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 11:33 +0200, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
Am Sonntag, 26. April 2009 11:27:29 schrieb Thomas Bächler:
I think among the Arch userbase, virtually nobody uses anything older than 2.6.27. We always announce to be "bleeding-edge", so IMO there should be no problem in supporting newer kernels only.
So those who use older kernels (why ever) just need to recompile glibc with their favourite settings? That would be acceptable imho.
So, if I'm updating from a system that hasn't been rebooted for half a year or so, I won't even get a chance to do so: pacman -S glibc, wait a few minutes for the update, and then everything says: "FATAL: Kernel too old". Don't do it, this will break lots of systems.