[Gta04-owner] Upgrading from stable to testing?

[Johannes Schauer]

Hi,

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 02:55:30PM +0100, Neil Jerram wrote:
> Disregarding my specific SSH problem, which is probably just config
> somewhere, is there any general reason why it would be a bad idea to
> upgrade the GTA04's Debian rootfs to testing?  Are there any specific
> package upgrades which are known or expected to be problematic?

yes, udev

I reported the bug here: http://bugs.debian.org/625752

to run udev >=168 you need a kernel with accept4 support which is not
the case for the default 2.6.32 that is provided.

the patch I added to the bugreport fixes the issue.

> Also (and slightly relatedly), regarding trying out the 3.1 kernel: is
> it sufficient to unpack the modules into the existing rootfs, and
> install the uImage in the FAT partition?

yes.

contact me if you have any problems relating to bootstrapping debian for
the gta04. I can build you debian testing/unstable images for it in
armel or armhf as you want. See my thread "debian armhf + linux 3.1".

cheers, josch