Re: can kernel 2.4.21 from testing source be installed withoutremoving 2.4.18 from woody?

["Daniel B." <dsb@smart.net>]

David Z Maze wrote:
> 
> "Daniel B." <dsb@smart.net> writes:
> 
> > Can a kernel-image 2.4.21 package from testing (built from source) be
> > installed on woody without removing a kernel-image 2.4.18 package from
> > woody?
> >
> > It seems that:
> > - testing's 2.4.21 kernel package depends on module-init-tools, but
> 
> So when you say "built from source", what do you really mean?  

I used "apt-get -b source ..." to get and compile packages from testing.


>I'd
> think that, if you used stable's kernel-package to build a 2.4.21 or
> 2.4.22 kernel from either the kernel.org or Debian (testing/unstable)
> sources, it should work fine and you wouldn't get strange
> dependencies.  .....

When I tried to download and build kernel-image-2.4.21-5-k7-smp,
it said it needed several packages, including kernel-package >=8.042 
(which is in testing), so I downloaded, build, and installed them.  

Then I ran "apt-get -b source kernel-source-2.4.21" to download and 
build kernel-source-2.4.21_2.4.21-5_all.deb, kernel-doc-..., 
kernel-patch-debian... and kernel-tree-...

After installing those, I ran "apt-get -b source 
kernel-image-2.4.21-5-k7-smp" to build that package.  (It took 
forever since it build kernels for every architecture.)

When I tried installing the kernel-image-2.4.21-5-k7-smp package, 
that's when I found out from delete/apt that:
- that package depends on module-init-tools, but 
- (testing's) module-init-tools conflicts with (woody's) modutils, 
- which my current 2.4.18 kernel package depends on.



Do I need to build a kernel 2.4.1 package other than
kernel-image-2.4.21-5-k7-smp?

Or do I need to unpack the tar file installed by
kernel-source-2.4.21_2.4.21-5_all.deb and build a kernel there
using make-kpkg or whatever?  (Would that result in different
dependencies?)


Thanks,
Daniel
-- 
Daniel Barclay
dsb@smart.net