Matthew Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 18:41, Andrew Pollock wrote:
>> Where I'm working, we have Debian stable deployed on a number of boxes. For
>> hardware support reasons, we've had to grab newer kernels from testing, and
>> have been reasonably successful at not dragging in half of testing with
>> them.
>> We're going to want to upgrade everything to 2.4.23 ASAP, but I'd prefer not
>> to drag in half of unstable with this upgrade.
>> 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?
>> Is it as simple as taking the source package and building it in a stable
>> pbuilder chroot, or is there more black magic involved with kernel packages?
> Simple.
> Just take the kernel-source-2.4.34.tar.bz2 tar ball out of the sid
> system and recompile using make-kpkg under woody, using the apporiate
> config file....
If you are using alsa you need a backport of alsa-source, the version
in woody does not compile aginst 2.4.23 anymore (up to 22 it worked
fine).
cu andreas
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