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Re: Maintaining kernel module packages?



David Z. Maze <dmaze@debian.org> wrote:
> deal?  If not, is there some way that I can build at least the i386
> modules without installing every flavor of every version of every
> kernel-source package?

There is only one kernel-source package.  However, you can build-depend
on the various kernel-headers packages in order to build the modules.

> (And is there some way to express that I build-depend on either
> i2c-modules-source or kernel-source for kernel 2.4.0 or newer?  I
> can't think of a good way to do this with the current Debian kernel
> source setup...)

You don't want to do that.  Modules are very peculiar things, you must
always depend on the exact version, e.g., kernel-headers-2.4.3-386.
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