Re: Bug#336732: /lib/modules/*/build symlink should be ignored when checking if kernel is installed
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 11:21:39AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Monday 07 November 2005 10:52, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> > That's silly. I have compiled a kernel image, I have the
> > sources lying around, and now I must compile a headers package
> > and install it, duplicating loads of files, just to compile a
> > module? Why? Upstream Makefile already install the source and build
> > links, which work, why go out of our way to remove them to make the
> > end user install yet another package?
>
> I agree with Manoj here: the user should have the option of having
> _either_ the full kernel sources installed _or_ the kernel headers
> package.
At the cost of breaking the official kernel images ?
> Does the scheme proposed by the kernel team make this possible?
I don't care what happens to user built packages, i just want Manoj to not
break the official kernels.
And yes, i believe that there is no reason why the kernel-source package built
by the user should not provide this symlink, or better yet the source symlink,
don't you think.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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