Ben Collins wrote: > Installing the intrepid kernel on hardy is very simple and doesn't need > a recompile against hardy to work. In fact, an intrepid kernel image > should run with no problems on systems as far back as feisty. > > The only issue is linux-restricted-modules, which isn't as easy to > install without a recompile, and quite frankly, the effort to make that > compile and work on pre-intrepid is way too much overhead for us to make > it worth it. > > As far as a PPA, we've discussed this, and we just don't want the > barrier that low for people to run bleeding edge kernels on released > systems, since it may detract from people doing full testing of > intrepid. > > So, if it's standard kernel testing, then they just need to add intrepid > to sources.list, install the new kernel, and revert sources.list back to > hardy (or just download the .deb and debi it). > > Hope this helps! > > The problem is not the kernel-image, that indeed installs. The problem, for some reason, seems to be with the kernel headers that bring in a huge amount of Intrepid dependencies and thus cannot be installed without making apt very unhappy.
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