If you are building a kernel for debian I recommend the debian kernel
source and building the debian way. Its been a long time since I've done
it, but Google should help. You could even grab the source package for the
wheezy kernel and just build that.
Anton
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Anton Piatek
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Hello Bob,
OK, not running Debian (/me on *buntu, actually Mint 12 but that is
pretty much 11.10), but I did exactly what you want to do. I feel your
pain, Gentoo made this a lot easier. The portage system is just so much
easier to manipulate.
Anyhow, I managed to grok a way to do this on Mi
> I believe the google incantation would be for "apt pinning" - I read
> about such ages ago, but have so rarely used the technique I can't
> remember how it's done.
Thanks that got me moving forward again. It's amazing how having the
right search terms help.
Clobber a couple of files to setup
On 16 December 2011 15:33, Bob Dunlop wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Please can anyone help a Gentoo user stuck in a mire of Debian apt-get
> thingies.
>
> I'm having to do a bit of admin style stuff while the company recruits a
> new Windows/Debian admin. So I have a Debian Squeeze box currently with
> a 2.6.
On Friday 16 December 2011 15:33:54 Bob Dunlop wrote:
> Is there a way to upgrade a single package? On Gentoo this is trivially
> easy.
Have you tried Squeeze backports, Bob?
http://backports-master.debian.org/Instructions/
It works great for any packages that are there. I did search for a 3.x
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 15:33, Bob Dunlop wrote:
> I'm having to do a bit of admin style stuff while the company recruits a
> new Windows/Debian admin. So I have a Debian Squeeze box currently with
> a 2.6.32-5 kernel on it which I need to update with a 3.+ kernel in order
> to support a RTL8191S
Hi,
Please can anyone help a Gentoo user stuck in a mire of Debian apt-get
thingies.
I'm having to do a bit of admin style stuff while the company recruits a
new Windows/Debian admin. So I have a Debian Squeeze box currently with
a 2.6.32-5 kernel on it which I need to update with a 3.+ kernel i
