On 23/01/2008 Steve Dobson wrote: > You don't need a backport of the kernel packages. They are stand alone > pieces of software that nothing depends upon and depend on nothing > themselves (in the packaging sense; I know the system needs a kernel to > run). You can just down load the kernel packages of your choice.
Even though unstable kernel packages may work in etch, your statement is not true in general. Newer kernel needs newer udev at least, and I guess that some minimal glibc version is required as well. greetings, jonas
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