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Re: Provide something like kernel-kbuild for 2.4 too



On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 01:08:43AM +0200, Sebastian Ley wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> please CC me on replies, as I am not subscribed to this list.
> 
> The ipw2100 driver I package for debian needs the kernel Makefiles to build. 
> For 2.6 kernels this and other stuff is in a package named 
> kernel-kbuild-2.6-x and I wonder if it is possible to have such a package for 
> 2.4 kernels as well.

Was it not called kernel-build-2.4.... ? 

> Additionally I want to suggest that kernel-source packages get a Provides: 
> kernel-header-$VERSION added.

As i understand, that would be wrong, since the kernel-source contain
the kernel source in packed form, while the kernel-header package
contain them in unpacked form. The kernel-source is thus not able to
provide siaid dependency without user interaction, and thus your
proposal cannot be followed. (Mmm, sorry for strange english, it is
early morning here :)

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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