Re: Deselect problems.
On 5 Jan 1998, Steve Dunham wrote:
> Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> writes:
>
> > On Mon, Jan 05, 1998 at 08:59:50AM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote:
>
> > > 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?
>
> > I don't know why all those patches are already applied. I have stopped
> > using the kernel-source packages because they can't be patched
> > up to the next kernel version easily (because of the already applied
> > patches). You should be able to install kernel-headers to satisfy it
> > and then dump the standard Linux source tree in for building kernels.
>
> Does anyone know why there is a dependency on kernel-headers? I was
> under the impression that glibc didn't use the kernel headers.
The libc6-dev package used to include its own copy of the linux and asm
directories from the kernel source. The libc6 maintainer decided that it
was rather pointless to make a hude diff that was essentially just the
kernel-headers package, so the dependancy was added again. It is for a
version-specific package for the reasons given in
/usr/doc/libc6/FAQ.Debian.gz
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Scott K. Ellis <storm@gate.net> http://www.gate.net/~storm/
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