Also, i would be interested in the reasons for you doing a custom kernel, and why the prebuilt one is not ok for you.
First I should say, that I'm very new to Debian (and Linux) so please feel free tell me, if I'm going in the completely wrong direction ;)
My goal is to set up a bridge firewall on an oldworld. From what I've read I need - at the very least - a 2.4.18 kernel with the bridge-nf-0.0.7 patch. I have absolutely no clue which kernel and patch would be the best or even just better than the above combination. There are newer versions, but I can't figure out if I should use them, or how to do it correctly without using dselect and following the suggestions in the Debian Installation guide. I hope reading the make-kpka docs will get me going though.
3) I need to apply a second patch (bridge-nf-0.0.7-against-2.4.18.diff). This worked fine the first time it tried, but that was to the unpatched source I got via dselect. Isthere an specific order I need to patch in, e.g. ppc patch first bridgepatch second?Might be problematic. But please use a bit more modern packages.
I'd love too! I was worried, that what dselect offers me is the last stable version, and that using anything above that is just asking for trouble. Not so?
If I understand you correctly now, I should generally use the newest kernel and patch, and Debian will be able to handle them if I use the make-kpka pakage?!? If not, how can I figure out the boarder between "good to use" and "not good to use"
Thanks Christian