On Monday 22 January 2007 14:46, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > I have a Debian 3.1 system,but am forced to upgrade the kernel to something > newer, so I added [snip] > Question: why doesn't it work? Aptitude is supposed to be good at resolving > dependencies, and there's nothing special with a stable system getting a > testing repo added.
I'm not sure if it's meant to "just work" if you just add a release source and try to install packages from it. > Question 2: why doesn't it work now when it worked 10 days or so ago? Testing changes frequently, including package dependencies and the like. [snip] > More importantly: how do I get the testing kernel on a stable system? You may want to look into apt-pinning; http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html hads -- http://nicegear.co.nz New Zealand's VoIP supplier
