Lucid Kernel Transitional Packages
Andy Whitcroft
apw at canonical.com
Wed Feb 17 17:04:25 UTC 2010
As Lucid is an LTS we have to ensure we have appropriate transitional
packages for upgrades from both Hardy and Karmic. Looking at the current
flavours we have the following mappings:
Distro flavour transitions for Lucid LTS:
HARDY KARMIC LUCID
i386 386 i386 386 i386 386
i386 generic i386 generic i386 generic
i386 server i386 generic-pae i386 generic-pae
i386 virtual i386 virtual i386 virtual
amd64 generic amd64 generic amd64 generic
amd64 server amd64 server amd64 server
amd64 virtual amd64 virtual amd64 virtual
-NONE- -NONE- amd64 preempt
lpia lpia lpia lpia -NONE-
Ports flavour transitions for Lucid LTS:
HARDY KARMIC LUCID
ia64 itanium ia64 ia64 ia64 ia64
ia64 mckinley ia64 ia64 ia64 ia64
powerpc powerpc powerpc powerpc powerpc powerpc
powerpc powerpc64 powerpc powerpc64 powerpc powerc64
powerpc powerpc-smp powerpc powerpc-smp powerpc powerpc-smp
sparc sparc64 sparc sparc64 sparc sparc64
sparc sparc64-smp sparc sparc64-smp sparc sparc64-smp
hppa hppa32 -NONE- -NONE-
hppa hppa64 -NONE- -NONE-
The summary of all that is that we need to ensure we have transitional
packages as below:
i386-server i386-generic-pae
ia64-itanium ia64-ia64
ia64-mckinley ia64-ia64
No transitional packages are required for LPIA as that is a complete
architecture switch and the cannot be handled via an upgrade at all.
-apw
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