[Labs-l] building different kernel

Ryan Lane rlane at wikimedia.org
Mon Mar 11 18:19:05 UTC 2013


On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 8:29 AM, Petr Bena <benapetr at gmail.com> wrote:

> why should I backport stuff into old kernel? when I can just use the
> latest version? This is something I would expect from distribution
> maintainer but not end user. There is nothing what should get broken
> by running 3.8.x
>
>
He's saying you should backport the kernel package, rather than building it
from scratch. Also, he was saying the 3.5 is already packaged and available
in precise-updates and doesn't need to be backported at all.

- Ryan
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