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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Compile most recent kernel on older distro ? Post 302427749 by cyler on Monday 7th of June 2010 06:08:05 PM
Old 06-07-2010
Compile most recent kernel on older distro ?

Debian lenny uses the 2.6.26 kernel by default. Can I compile the most recent kernel from kernel.org and use it instead ? Will the new kernel be incompatible with other installed softwares ?
 

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Config::Model::models::Debian::Dpkg::Meta(3pm)		User Contributed Perl Documentation	    Config::Model::models::Debian::Dpkg::Meta(3pm)

NAME
Config::Model::models::Debian::Dpkg::Meta - Configuration class Debian::Dpkg::Meta VERSION
version 2.021 DESCRIPTION
Configuration classes used by Config::Model This class contains parameters to tune the behavior of the Dpkg model. For instance, user can specify rules to update e-mail addresses. Elements email Optional. Type uniline. email-updates - email update hash Specify old email as key. The value is the new e-mail address that will be substituted. Optional. Type hash of uniline. dependency-filter Specifies the dependency filter to be used. The release specified mentions the most recent release to be filtered out. Older release will also be filtered. For instance, if the dependency filter is 'lenny', all 'lenny' and 'etch' dependencies are filtered out.Optional. Type enum. choice: 'etch', 'lenny', 'squeeze', 'wheezy'. group-dependency-filter Dependency filter tuned by Maintainer field. Use this to override the main dependency-filter value.Optional. Type hash of enum. package-dependency-filter Dependency filter tuned by package. Use this to override the main dependency-filter value.Optional. Type hash of enum. SEE ALSO
o cme AUTHOR
Dominique Dumont COPYRIGHT
2010,2011 Dominique Dumont LICENSE
LGPL2 perl v5.14.2 2012-11-09 Config::Model::models::Debian::Dpkg::Meta(3pm)
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