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  • From: Treeve Jelbert <treeve01 AT pi.be>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [SM-Discuss] Re: What's the status of 2.6?
  • Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 16:31:01 +0100

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On Monday 16 February 2004 16:54, Steven Pinkham wrote:
> How's 2.6 working out in sourcemage? I've been holding off upgrading
> waiting for you all with free time to work out most of the bugs ;-)
>
> >From watching the closed bugs on bugzilla and such everything seems to
>
> be calming down on that front. Is now a good time to make the jump, or
> are there still significant problems remaining?
> Is there any problem with switching between 2.4 and 2.6 if problems do
> happen?

no problem until you rebuild glibc with the linux-2.6 headers and nptl.

from then on you are committed to 2.6.

After I had done this, I started having system freezes which seemed to be
related to waiting for http connections, so I rebuilt a lot of stuff using
the linux-2.6 headers. Finally, I think it was w3c-libwww that solved the
problem



> Thanks for your hard work on this distro. I'd like to be more involved
> in helping when my schedule calms down again.
Regards, Treeve

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