In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 18:30, Andrew Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 05:59:40PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: >> > On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 16:41, Andrew Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > > 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? >> > >> > Why not just use a machine running unstable to do the compile? >> > >> > I use unstable machines to compile all my kernels, they install and run >> > fine on woody systems. >> >> I presume I can lower the dependencies on things like modutils and whatnot >> down to the versions that are in stable with no ill-effects? > >It only depends on coreutils|fileutils, so there's no problems in that regard.
Hmm, last week I compiled a 2.4.23 kernel on my "unstable" desktop, created a kernel-image package with make-kpgp, and it didn't install on a plain woody machine. The "depmod" part failed. On the 'stable' machine, I updated to modutils from Adrian Bunk's sarge-to-woody backport archive, and then it suddenly worked. Mike.
