Re: What's Debian's /usr/src policy
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Regarding "Re: What's Debian's /usr/src policy" of 4:34 PM -0600 1/16/98,
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> So, a dependency was cerated on kernel headers rather than
> create kernel header sized architecture dependent diffs. (Still makes
> sense to me ;-)
Yes, I think it makes sense too (though I have been working with glibc
quite a bit lately, and its docs don't seem to consider it a big deal to
have /usr/include/{asm,linux} be symlinks to
/usr/src/linux/include/{asm-$ARCH,linux}, where /usr/src/linux is whatever
kernel version happens to occupy that directory).
The current problem is that libc6-dev depends on 'kernel-headers-2.0.32' or
'kernel-source-2.0.32'.
I suggest it depend on 'kernel-headers' instead, and then each architecture
would provide its own arch-dependant 'kernel-headers' package (which could
be a virtual package), it would install into /usr/include{asm,linux}, thus
leaving room for 'kernel-source' in /usr/src.
Actually, on a bo system, what is kernel-headers for? It is for people who
want to compile programs that need the kernel headers for the current
kernel, but don't want to compile kernels or don't have the disk space for
the full kernel sources, correct?
m68k and i386, and alpha(?) are currently using the same libc6 sources,
correct? And I assume the 2.0.32 kernel headers are only useful for i386,
and possibly alpha, therefore, the dependency on 'kernel-headers-2.0.32' is
only correct for at most, two architectures.
powerpc, and sparc both use glibc 2.1, but I expect that the others will
move in that direction eventually, once glibc 2.1 goes final.
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Joel "Espy" Klecker Debian GNU/Linux Developer <mailto:jk@espy.org>
<http://www.espy.org/> <http://www.debian.org/>
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