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Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat



On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 06:27:30AM +0000, Andreas Metzler wrote:
[...]
> > Only in /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.2.19/include/linux: modversions.h
> > Only in /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.2.19/include/linux: version.h
> 
> Hello!
> 
> This seems to scream to me to simply split the common files out to a
> new package.  kernel-headers-2.4.2-common
> 
> Am I missing something?
>        tia, cu andreas

that was my first thought, then i realized, how do you know whats
different?  you can't keep a static list of files/directories to grab
since its almost certain to change with new kernels.  i suppose you
could modifiy make-kpkg to save an ls -R or something to a file and
compare afterwords but that seems gross and perhaps unreliable.  

its just not as trivial as it sounds i don't think.  

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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