Re: Backporting 2.4.23 kernel packages
In article <[🔎] 200312052308.53085.russell@coker.com.au>,
Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> wrote:
>On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 18:30, Andrew Pollock <apollock@debian.org> wrote:
>> 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?
>
>It only depends on coreutils|fileutils, so there's no problems in that regard.
Hmm, last week I compiled a 2.4.23 kernel on my "unstable" desktop,
created a kernel-image package with make-kpgp, and it didn't
install on a plain woody machine. The "depmod" part failed.
On the 'stable' machine, I updated to modutils from Adrian Bunk's
sarge-to-woody backport archive, and then it suddenly worked.
Mike.
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