From russelldickenson at gmail.com Sun Nov 28 23:55:06 2010 From: russelldickenson at gmail.com (Russell Dickenson) Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 08:55:06 +1000 Subject: [Frugalware-users] Can I use a kernel from "stable" with Frugalware "current"? Message-ID: I have a problem at the moment in that my MSI Wind U200 laptop will not boot the kernel available in Frugalware's "current" repository. This is a problem for me because in writing the newsletter I like to try out new packages. I wonder if it's possible for me to stay with the kernel from 1.3 but have everything else upgraded? I am currently running 1.3 on the same laptop so I was thinking of making a copy of this and "pacman-g2 -Syu"-ing this copy, but with all kernel-related packages marked in pacman's configuration with the "DO NOT UPGRADE" option (sorry, but I can't remember what it's called). Will this option work? I understand that I won't be able to install any packages which are dependent on the kernel version in "current" but I don't think I need any of them. May you always be Frugal, Russell Dickenson (AKA phayz) From vmiklos at frugalware.org Mon Nov 29 00:01:37 2010 From: vmiklos at frugalware.org (Miklos Vajna) Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 00:01:37 +0100 Subject: [Frugalware-users] Can I use a kernel from "stable" with Frugalware "current"? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20101128230137.GC22105@genesis.frugalware.org> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 08:55:06AM +1000, Russell Dickenson wrote: > I have a problem at the moment in that my MSI Wind U200 laptop will > not boot the kernel available in Frugalware's "current" repository. > This is a problem for me because in writing the newsletter I like to > try out new packages. I wonder if it's possible for me to stay with > the kernel from 1.3 but have everything else upgraded? > > I am currently running 1.3 on the same laptop so I was thinking of > making a copy of this and "pacman-g2 -Syu"-ing this copy, but with all > kernel-related packages marked in pacman's configuration with the "DO > NOT UPGRADE" option (sorry, but I can't remember what it's called). > Will this option work? I understand that I won't be able to install > any packages which are dependent on the kernel version in "current" > but I don't think I need any of them. I think so. Of course this is not supported, but I don't know any reason on top of my head why this would not work in case of 1.3 and today's current. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: not available URL: