Re: What's Debian's /usr/src policy
On Mon, Jan 05, 1998 at 05:48:27PM -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> I never understood why the kernel source was made into a .deb package. It
Because it's something we expect people will want to recompile,
so we should make it readily available to them.
> doesn't make sense to me. I also don't see any point in "managing" a
> binary package of the kernel either. The system doesn't gain anything by
> having dpkg know which kernel binaries are installed either. The binary
> thus installed still needs to be configured for lilo or loadlin or grub,
> so what's the point?
I think it does gain something; it is much easier to have multiple
versions around. If I compile a new 2.1 kernel and find that
it is not too good (like 2.1.76 seems to have broken sound
for me so I went back to 2.1.72), I can just reinstall the old
one with dpkg. I don't need to edit my lilo config, play with
symlinks in / etc.
hamish
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