Re: potential mayhem with trial libc6 package and kernel-headers
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com> writes:
> I genrally unpack into /usr/src/local and mv things one level
> up, personally.
That seems reasonable. I guess I had just sort of always treated
/usr/src/ as if it was local, even though I probably shouldn't have.
> Rob> Now I'm happy to just change my behavior, and unpack the kernels
> Rob> I download somewhere else, but I think you're going to see some
> Rob> mayhem when this pair of packages is released and other people
> Rob> doing something similar suddenly have to treat /usr/src/linux as
> Rob> read only without being warned.
>
> What do you sugggest, modulo maintaining backward
> compatibility to people who have old kernel-source packages
> installed?
I don't really have a good suggestion, but I think that this should
be somehow *widely* advertised with the new libc6 arrangement. I
don't know if I'd go so far as an actual pause in the postinst, but
this could be a fairly serious problem.
People who weren't using kernel-headers before (because they never
needed it), may be in for a shock.
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