Re: Bad practice to make a package depend on a specific kernel image
On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 13:33:34 +1100, Robert Collins
<robertc@robertcollins.net> said:
> On Sun, 2006-12-17 at 01:52 -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 10:20:56 +1100, Robert Collins
>> <robertc@robertcollins.net> said:
>>
>> > What you need to do is twofold: depend upon the presence of the
>> > ABI required, if you can get the kernel package maintainers to
>> > add an
>>
>> Assumption: all machines that install your package are going to be
>> running official kernels. None of my machines ever do.
> No, thats not an assumption. Done appropriately, the ABI data
> emitted would be done via make-kpkg, and be able to be generated for
> kernel.org kernels as well as debian 'official' kernels.
At this point, that is not the case, no? Only official kernel
images have the concept of abi in the version numbering.
manoj
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