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

Hereon hereon1 at fastmail.us
Sat Jan 21 22:08:02 PST 2006


On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 18:44:45 -0800, "Daniel Gimpelevich" <daniel at gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us> said:
> 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.

Excellent info!  Now:

1) Exactly what was the /etc/apt/sources.list line for dapper?

2a) Can you come up with the list of packages?  

2b) How did you come up with the necessary list?  From your general knowledge?  Did you look through some source or documentation or other references?

Thanks!
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