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Re: Kernel module package depending on kernel-headers.



Sven,

On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 05:05:27PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> Ideally, i would build depend on kernel-headers-2.4, and have a option
> that i can pass to debian/rules which would detect what kernel-headers
> package provide this and set the kernel version accordyingly.
> 
> Is this a better solution ?
Why not makeing a unicorn-src package, providing the upstream tarball?
Its always a major hassle to compile kernel-binaries (or module-binaries)
for all available platforms/processors. So a source package is the
preferred way to distribute kernel addons.

> How do other module packages handle this, do someone know at a good such
> package i could use as example ?
The current ALSA packages (apt-cache show alsa-source) are doing it
this way.

cu, Bastian
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     Bastian Kleineidam

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