[conspire] Daniel, Rick - Howto ubuntu pull latest kernel into Breezy

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

Here is the contents of my /etc/apt/preferences file:

Package: *
Pin: release a=dapper
Pin-Priority: 50

My /etc/apt/sources.list has all the usual breezy lines, in addition to a
single separate line for dapper. With such a setup, I can do:

sudo apt-get -t dapper install package1 package2 package3

I don't really remember exactly which packages were necessary for the
kernel upgrade, but generally they were everything involving gcc, pcmcia,
wireless, and udev.

On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 15:53:45 -0800, Hereon wrote:

> Daniel - at the last meeting you mentioned you have done something (pinning?) to pull the latest ubuntu kernel into Breezy.  And, that this was based on a method Rick made for doing something (pinning?) in sort of the reverse way it is usually done.
> 
> Do you have a link to a web page, email, etc about specifically how to do this?
> 
> Note: Ben Collins, kernel maintainer for ubuntu, suggested I get the latest ubuntu development kernel into Breezy to see if it has a bug fix I need.  But, 1) The method he suggested I use didn't work, and 2) The people on #ubuntu-devel said it was a) impossible, b) _VERY_ hard to do.
> 
> Daniel, since you said you've accomplished it, I'd love to hear the exact method you used.
> 
> Thanks!
> -- 
>   Hereon
>   hereon1 at fastmail.us