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Re: pwc-source headed for unstable this weekend



On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 20:35 +0100, Eric Lavarde wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> (I assume everybody is on -devel, like I am, and as it seems the problem 
> sits between keyboard and chair, no bug report either).
> 
> This might very well be, as I didn't compile the kernel myself (I just 
> use the standard kernel-image-2.6.10-1-k7 package) but used 
> kernel-source-2.6.10 with the .config from the image package, make 
> oldconfig and make dep (which I was told is deprecated, so).
That is exactly what the package "kernel-headers-2.6.10-1-k7" is for, it
depends on "kernel-headers-2.6.10-1" and creates the symlink proper for
thrid party and external modules to use.

> 
> So, basically, your saying that the right way to do this kind of things 
> is to use the corresponding kernel-headers package, and apt-get tells me 
> that I need as well kernel-kbuild to build "out-of-tree kernel modules" 
> which seems to be exactly what I need.

Yes, he is correct.
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