Comment 282 for bug 204996

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.

Sergio

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