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Re: What is a Kernel?



On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 09:35:07AM +0200 , Fredrik Liljegren wrote:
> Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> writes:
> > kernel-source-<ver> is the source used to build kernel-image-<ver>,
> > which is not necessarily the same as the upstream kernel source.  The
> > README.Debian in kernel-source-2.2.17 for example contains:
> 
> But why, then, is it a separate package, instead of just being the

what is not a separate package? Are you aware of existence of
kernel-patch-<ver> aren't you.

> source-packade of kernel-image, like it is for every other package?
> People wanting to conpile their own kernels could just as easily run
> "apt-get source kernel-image-<ver>" instead of "apt-get install

apt-get install kernel-source-<ver> kernel-patch-<something>-<ver>

> kernel-source-<ver>", provided they have sources in theis
> sources.list?
> 
> Regards, EOF
> 
> 
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