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Re: Backporting 2.4.23 kernel packages



On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 05:59:40PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 16:41, Andrew Pollock <apollock@debian.org> wrote:
> > So, I was wondering how to go about taking the source package for
> > 2.4.23-686 (and the SMP version) and backport them to stable?
> 
> Why not just use a machine running unstable to do the compile?
> 
> I use unstable machines to compile all my kernels, they install and run fine 
> on woody systems.

I presume I can lower the dependencies on things like modutils and whatnot
down to the versions that are in stable with no ill-effects?

Andrew



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