Re: Bug#336732: /lib/modules/*/build symlink should be ignored when checking if kernel is installed
On Sun, 6 Nov 2005 18:12:48 +0100, Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> said:
> On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 10:57:13AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> > There is no reason that the linux-headers packages could not be
>> > used to build out-of-tree modules using the symlink, without
>> > having the linux-image installed, so this doesn't work, even
>> > though it looks like a seducing proposal.
>>
>> Third party modules which have been integrated into Debian can
>> still be built, without the linux-image installed, by
>> a) cd /usr/src/kernel-headers-foo, call make-kpkg
>> b) KSRC=/usr/src/kernel-headers-foo, call make-kpkg
> Yeah, hear yourself, because you don't feel like adding a simple
> exception to the check for build, or do a find -name \*.ko as Martin
> suggested, each and all the packaged modules need to be modified, as
> well as all third party module which are not packaged and depend on
> the build symlink working.
When I, as a user, build kernel images, on make install, it
creates source and build links, pointing to the directory where the
sources lie. When I package the image up, it too comes with a nice
source and build links.
So kernel image packages ship with source links, and build
links. Even if I did not ask the question preinst, the packages would
conflict, since the same files belong in both.
manoj
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