Quantal: End of the line for i386 non-PAE

[Tim Gardner]

On 05/08/2012 08:13 AM, Phillip Susi wrote:
> On 5/2/2012 10:57 AM, Tim Gardner wrote:
>> Any ideas on how we might allow PAE capable CPUs to upgrade? Is this the
>> job of update-manager ? It seems likely that Debian must have
>> encountered this issue before.
>
> With a Replaces: line in the control file of the new kernel?
>
>

The suggestion offered yesterday in the kernel flavours session was to 
add a pre-install hook in the meta package to determine if the CPU was 
PAE capable, and to stop the upgrade if not.

rtg
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com