Re: Upcoming changes to Debian Linux kernel packages
herve <herve@couvelard.com> writes:
> concerning the linux-headers. may i explain what happend to me.
>
> I reinstalled a debian 11.6 some months ago. and last week i had to
> make virtualbox functioning again. it had to "compile" some kernel
> modules and need some "headers". my kernel (from the install is
> 5.10.0-23-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.179-3 (2023-07-27) x86_64
> GNU/Linux) so virtualbox need some 5.10.0-23 headers... you can find
> 5.10.0.20, 5.10.0.22, 5.10.0.25 in the repos from where the install
> came from.
>
> I had to surf the web and find a 5.10.0.23 in the web site of an
> university and wget it to dpkg -i it.
No, you didn't. You could, and should, simply update the kernel with
the latest security fixes, and then install the matching headers from
the same repo.
> I do not know (maybe i could not even understand) the security
> reasons/problems of the headers versioning but it seems from my
> end-user point of view that, the actual situation that lend me to
> download from a website is the worst possible solution.
Running out-of-tree kernel code means that you can't use the security
card. Sorry.
Bjørn
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