Re: changing default ping

[Gabor Gombas <gombasg@sztaki.hu>]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 12:02:16PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:

> How does the ping package know which kernel I have installed?  

That's the important thing: building of the package _must not_ depend on
the version of the installed kernel. If the kernel interface changes
from one kernel version to another, then the package _must_ check for
the change at run-time and not at compile-time. And that means the
package must be built with the headers from the latest kernel version it
is designed to support.

Gabor

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