Re: PW#5-16: Use of /usr/src
Hi,
>>"Ian" == Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
Ian> Manoj Srivastava writes ("Re: PW#5-16: Use of /usr/src"): ...
>> Umm, no. The kernel-* package maintainers use kernel-package, which
>> produces (and has produced, in the past) the packages
>> kernel-{headers,source,doc,image}-<version>. There is no
>> interaction required between the two sets of maintainers (libc-dev
>> and kernel-*)
Ian> Why can't the kernel-package scripts arrange to create
Ian> libc-headers_ $version instead of
Ian> kernel-headers-$version_$version ?
So, every time we build a kernel-* set of packages, it also
creates a libc-headers package, whether or not the current
libc depends on it? I would like to see kernel-* packages updated
rather more oftne than the libc packages.
Ian> ...
>> But that is duplication of a package; it shall exists as
kernel-headers-> version> and libc-kernel-headers, the former since it
>> is automatically produced for all kernel-* packages (offcial or
>> unofficial packages); it is produced since people still use it.
Ian> Why can't we remove it in favour of the libc-headers package ?
I fail to see an advantage compelling enough to warrant
this. The packages are identical. We shall not reduce the
number of packages, we do not create fewer dependencies.
>> I have, at the moment, 2 different kernel-header packages from two
>> different kernel versions. I use them for experimental modules that
>> I build. That is reason enough for kernel-headers-2.0.34.
Ian> Very few people need to do this; those that do can just install
Ian> the relevant kernel source trees by hand.
There is a major difference between the size of a kernel
source tree and a kernel headers tree. I am still not convinced about
the merits of the proposed change.
manoj
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