Re: [READTHIS] Familiar v0.5 and the Unstable feed

One question: Why? Familiar is Debian based, right? The driving principle
behind Debian is that you can _always_ upgrade. And Debian's been
through every kind of library and kernel change you can imagine. Hey
I was around for the big aout to ELF switch, the libc change over, and
others, and I've nver done a reinstall. I've always said "One computer,
one Debian install". What technical difficulties make it impossible to
do the same on the iPaq?

Ross

On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 12:41:22PM -0700, Alexander Guy wrote:
> Greetings,
> I just wanted to get a note out to people about some of the work
> being done before v0.5 hits the shelves.
>
> There are a bunch of things I'd like to get updated (like libc) which will be
> creating incompatibilities with existing v0.4 installs (even if you've been
> tracking unstable). Because of this, we've decided to not support upgrades for
> v0.5. Just to be clear:
>
> Moving to Familiar v0.5 will require a reflash of the filesystem.
>
> This also means that the current people tracking the unstable feed, from
> a v0.4 base, should _stop updating against the feed_. Continuing to
> track the unstable feed could/will lead to your iPAQ becoming unbootable
> (due to library conflicts). As soon as the v0.5 pre-release images start
> coming out, you should be able to start tracking unstable again (assuming
> you've reflashed).
>
> The unstable feed will remain in ``working'' order for the rest of Friday. I
> won't start pushing in any serious changes until Saturday evening (PST).
>
> Thanks, and let me know if you have any questions.
>
>
> Alexander
>
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Received on Fri Aug 24 2001 - 13:49:29 EDT