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Re: Provide something like kernel-kbuild for 2.4 too



Am Montag, 28. Juni 2004 08:03 schrieben Sie:

> > 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.... ?

I believe it just depends on all arch flavours of a certain kernel version. At 
least I do not find the Makefile I need...

> > 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. 

Yeah, it was a stupid idea ;-) Furthermore, the kernel-headers contain header 
files from configured kernel sources i.e some variables replaced etc...

Forget about this ;-)

Sebastian
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