Re: kernel depends?
On Tue 28 Nov 2000, Jan Martin Mathiassen wrote:
> one thing that's been bothering me a bit lately (well, mostly while i was a
> linux newbie, but still), has been the fact that when i apt-get install the
> kernels, it depends on bzip2 only... not any of the tools it needs to be
> *built*. should i file a wishlist bug against the kernel packages, asking
> them to be dependent on bin86, libncurses4-dev etc?
Specify what you mean with "the kernel packages". If you're installing
a kernel-image package, then there is no way you're going to build the
kernel with just that, so it would be wrong to make that depend on bin86
etc.
Now if you're talking about a kernel-source package, then please note
that it in fact *does* depend on "binutils, bzip2, fileutils (>= 4.0)".
That is all you need if you want to build your own kernel. Of course,
if you want the pretty "make menuconfig" interface to *configuring* your
kernel (not build!), then look at the Suggests for that package.
If you downloaded the kernel sources on your own, go complain to the
linux-kernel people that you're not told to have bin86 etc. available;
after all, how can debian "fix" things for you in such a situation?
> i spent a few hours before someone told me "um... you need bin86 installed
> to compile the asm part of the kernel".
Wasn't that clear from the error message you get? Besides, I've never
really contemplated the fact that I need bin86; I always happened to
have it installed. You must have decided for yourself that you didn't
need it? It is after all a "Priority: standard" package.
Paul Slootman
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