On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Tom George wrote:

> Before compiling the 2.4.1 kernel I used apt-get dist-upgrade  to
> install all the available upgrades in the stable distribution,.  I then
> checked against the list in changes and found that I still had only
> modutils 2.3.11-13.1.  I used apt-get install modutils to get version
> 2.4.1-2.   Still dpkg -l shows that I still have only ppp 2.3.11-1.4.  I
> will try getting ppp 2.4.0 from the unstable distribution.
>
> I am a little nervous about this - I really want to use some of the
> features of 2.4 but why should I have to obtain packages from the
> unstable distribution for a stable kernel distribution?

The way between this is to use the packages I have prepared [1] - but read
the warnings before you install these packages.

cu,
Adrian

[1] http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel-24.html


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