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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