Re: Deselect problems.
On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> There is absolutely no necessity to have a kernel-source or
> kernel-headers package on your system (that I'm aware of). You can
> certainly dump your own copy of the Linux source tree into
> /usr/src/linux, compile it (with or without kernel-package/make-kpkg)
> and install it. dpkg/dselect won't care. I never use the source
> packages because I don't like the way they're already patched
> with some non-standard things in some cases.
The kernel-source-2.0.32 deb has a 130K diff file against the standard
source. Just where do these patches come from and why are they necessary?
Is the fact that I _have_ to have 2.0.32 source or headers going to stop
me from going to 2.0.33?
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