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 MintBuntu. In principle it
should be similar enough to Debian, so here is what I did -
* Pinned all my kernel packages by adding the following fragment to
the bottom my /etc/apt/preferences file:
---start---
Package: linux-firmware
Pin: release o=Ubuntu
Pin-Priority: -10
Package: linux-generic
Pin: release o=Ubuntu
Pin-Priority: -10
Package: linux-image-*
Pin: release o=Ubuntu
Pin-Priority: -10
Package: linux-headers-*
Pin: release o=Ubuntu
Pin-Priority: -10
Package: linux-libc-dev
Pin: release o=Ubuntu
Pin-Priority: -10
---end---
Note: You will have to research the "Pin" entry a bit to ensure that you
put something sensible in there for Debian.
* Then I downloaded the 3.1.5 kernel sources from kernel.org,
* made sure that the source is in /usr/src/linux-3.1.5,
* created a kernel config (see [1])
* did a "make all ; make modules_install ; make install"
* made sure that "make install" inserted the right bits in my grub.conf
* rebooted! :-)
The pinning ensures that I can now update the system without having to
be scared that my kernel will get clobbered.
Footnote [1]:
As with building your kernel source on Gentoo, you will have to start
the process with a kernel config. I simply copied my 3.0.0-13 running
kernel config from "/boot/config-3.0.0-13-generic" to
"/usr/src/linux-3.1.5/.config", and rebuilt the config with a "make
oldconfig" before I started the "make all" bits. Since a lot of things
have changed from 3.0.0 to 3.1.5, "make oldconfig" will ask you what to
do for all the newer kernel options. In this particular case I simply
accepted the defaults, which seems to work for me. Incidentally I tried
the same for kernel 3.2-rc5, but my wireless is not working (I probably
need to reconfigure the kernel again with "make menuconfig" and rebuild
it).
Also one last tip: make sure you edit the kernel source Makefile and add
your bit to the "EXTRAVERSION" line. Mine looks like this:
---start---
VERSION = 3
PATCHLEVEL = 1
SUBLEVEL = 5
EXTRAVERSION = -jh1
NAME = "Divemaster Edition"
---end---
Let me know if you want my 3.1.5 kernel config file, and I will mail it
to you.
Hope this helps! :-)
On 16/12/11 15:57, hants...@googlemail.com wrote:
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
kernel, using various terms and couldn't find one. If the kernel you want is
in Wheezy, I am surprised if it is not in backports and my search abilitites
fade with my eyesight.
But you can, by pinning, use just named packages form Wheezy. I have not
tried this and can therefore not tell you how, but it seems to be eminently
doable by the competant!
The Debian users list would be a good place to ask. There are some real
experts on pinning there. But tell them what you want to achieve. There may
be a more debianised way of doing it.
http://lists.debian.org/
HTH
Lisi
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