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 -- Nicht weil die Dinge schwierig sind wagen wir sie nicht, sondern weil wir sie nicht wagen sind sie schwierig.