Dapper Kernel Backports?

[Matthew Nicholson]

I think this is a great idea. I've been rolling over the idea of
building some 2.6.17 goodness (it would help my powerbook out a whole
lot it sounds like). I'd be willing to help in any way possible.


On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 16:36 -0400, John Dong wrote:
> I'd be thrilled to offer this service to Dapper Backports users, but
> it must be done so carefully as not to stumble across problems down
> the road.
>  
> First off, we need to make a list of all the possible scenarios that
> may arise in the future (such as the mentioned restricted-modules
> conflicts or udev problems), decide how to handle them (and perhaps
> contact the "maintainers" of those packages to see if they are
> interested in cooperating with this project).
>  
>  
> As I said before, if at all possible I'd like to do this in a way
> where Ubuntu developers would approve and also have the opportunity to
> help out, instead of starting up a personal APT repository and ending
> up with a support nightmare.
>  
>  
> John
> 
>  
> On 6/23/06, Sam Liddicott <sam at liddicott.com> wrote: 
>           
>         Thanks for your consideration of this, John.
>         2.6.17 seems too full of wlan goodness for dapper folk to do
>         without.
>         
>         Sam
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