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Re: kernel depends?



Hallo! Du (Josh Huber) hast geschrieben:

>On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 04:41:52PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote:
>[snip idea about arch specific kernel source]
>
>please no -- this is what redhat does, and it's incredibly agrivating
>to not have all the architectures' kernel source included in the
>kernel sorurce packages.

why not having a 

kernel-source-2.2.17

and additionally

kernel-source-i386-2.2.17
kernel-source-sparc-2.2.17
...

>when you install kernel source you expect it's the actual kernel
>source.

and this is what you usually didn't get. You get kernel-source
with Debian-specific-patches. (This sucks if you want to patch
the source yourself.)

Cord



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