Re: using new kernels in sarge?

[Giacomo Mulas <gmulas@ca.astro.it>]

On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, Adam Stiles wrote:

> Do get kernel-package, though; it will make the job of compiling your kernel
> -much- easier.

I always use kernel-package to roll out my kernels, the question is: do I need 
the one from sid to compile newer kernels? For one thing, when using the
sarge make-kpkg to make kernels, I have to manually build kernel images 
using yaird (backported from sid) when installing, because the postinst 
script created by the sarge make-kpkg always tries to use the old initrd-tools
which in turn depend on devfs (yanked from recent kernels). The point is
that I would like to keep my production machines on sarge for stability
reasons, but at the same time I want to use recent kernels, to get the 
critical bugfixes, with as little backporting as possible...

bye,
Giacomo

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