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Re: 3.19.0 dependency problem



Hello,

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 07:35:52AM +1200, Fred Cooke wrote:
> Thanks for the quick replies! I love that I run Sid (on 4 machines), only
> notice something worth reporting every 2 years or so, and get immediate
> responses! <3 Debian.
> 
> I've not built a Kernel (or any related part) in a VERY long time, I think
> maybe 2.6.something? I've simply not needed to. I still don't need to :-)
> 
> I'm aware of the need being only for kernel headers, however I've been
> burned on Sid before by not grabbing them at the time of the image, and not
> being able to grab them later as they are not persisted in parallel in the
> repo. Then you're forced to get a new kernel and headers, and back then,
> that meant possible bugs/changed behaviours that I didn't want. So I always
You don't know about http://snapshot.debian.org/ ?

> install headers up front. And I should use meta packages to do that, but
> haven't been in the past.
> 
> Meta-packages that glue this stuff all together seem to be missing from
> experimental too. If you don't care, it's fine by me. Just letting you know
> in case it was an oversight.
Yeah, that's known, too. Usually there is just noone to volunteer
updating them for experimental, same as for kbuild.

Best regards
Uwe

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