On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 05:11:50PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 08:35, Andrew Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 11:08:53PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > What about modutils and initrd-tools? > > What is needed for initrd-tools? I've given up on using initrd's for kernels > I compile.
Ah, there's the catch. I don't (usually). I'd like to take the source of a kernel-image-2.4.23 package and do whatever's necessary to get it to install on a woody system without having to drag in half of sarge/sid to satisfy dependencies. This is where I was going with my initial posting. Sorry if this wasn't clear. At present, for say 2.4.22, I've taken the kernel-image-2.4.22-3-686 package from sarge, along with whatever dependencies required, and installed on it woody. Problem is, more often than not, modutils or initrd-tools has a libc6 dependency, and well, everything goes downhill from there... > As for modutils, that's probably a bug in kernel-package that it doesn't list > dependencies. > > Add the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list file to get Brian's > back-ports > of modutils and all other things: > deb http://www.microcomaustralia.com.au/debian/ stable main Thanks. Andrew
