Re: kernel-package or kernel bug???
On Thu 30 Nov 2000, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>
> Brian> If this is the case, it seems pretty silly, as the deb file typically
> Brian> is for installation on other computers, where the symlink just will
> Brian> become an invalid symlink.
>
> It is installed by the kernel Makefile. And not all packages
> are meant to be installed on other computers -- I routinely compile
> and install my own kernel image modules, and I have a suspicion that
> I am not alone.
If you have a number of similar systems (e.g. a server park),
it's perfectly sensible to make a kernel-image package only
on one system, and install that on all the systems. I don't
see much sense in having a symlink on all of them that only
works on one system (if the other systems can live with the
link being broken, why need the link anyway?).
Paul Slootman
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