glibc update

[rpyne@kinfolk.org]

I have two production servers running Lunar with kernel 2.4.27 
patched for lvm2, originally installed from Lunar 1.4.0. What is the 
recommended upgrade path to move to the latest 2.6 kernel?

Thanks.

--Richard

On 18 Nov 2007 at 23:01, Moritz Heiber wrote:

> Hello dear community,
> 
> as of right now lunar is shipping the latest available glibc with
> its
> moonbase. It tooks some time, yet .. we managed to make it count.
> From
> now, glibc comes along with a new language choser which gives you
> the
> opportunity to chose from all currently supported languages
> including
> UTF-8 based locales (which has been missing from lunar ever
> since).
> 
> Along with it we're rolling out updates to several key core
> components
> like binutils, udev and hal .. some of them are being patched to
> work
> with the latest glibc. Others had to have the newer glibc in place
> in
> order to work correctly.
> 
> Also coming along is a brand-new kernel-headers-2.6 module shipping
> the
> latest headers from 2.6.23. It comes in both flavours, x86 and
> x86_64.
> 
> This update also marks the end of the linux-2.4 kernels in
> moonbase.
> The newer glibc does not work with the old 2.4.x based kernel
> series.
> So IF YOU'RE RUNNING LINUX 2.4.X PLEASE PUT glibc _ON HOLD!_
> In the end you're not going to get around migrating to 2.6.x .. but
> its
> going to buy you some time.
> 
> All updates have been tested back and forth .. yet, I'm pretty
> sure
> there are bugs going to pop up here and there. Please make use of
> our
> bugtracker [1] if you think you encoutered one.
> 
> All in all this has been a great team effort and I'd like to thank
> each
> and every member of our team for putting his/her spare time into
> it.
> 
> Thank you and have fun with the new glibc!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> For the Lunar Linux Development Team, Moritz 'Moe' Heiber
> 
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