Bug#396835: kernel package bug and kpathsea

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:

> On 06.12.06 Frank Küster (frank@debian.org) wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>> > This symlink is an absolute reference to the source tree on the
>> > builder's machine.  How could that possibly be useful on anyone else's
>> > random machine?  If it were a symlink to /usr/src/linux* that would be
>> > a different story.  Note that the binary package deletes the symlink
>> > on installation (search for "source" in
>> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image*.postinst); it would be better IMHO if
>> > it were deleted at the end of the build.
>> 
>> I agree.  However, before submitting a bugreport I'd like to know
>> whether this problem still exists.  Does anyone have a linux source
>> and kernel-package installed in a sid environment?
>> 
> I do. Or say better I can prepare the box. What should I do?

Ah, great.  Unpack the sources below $HOME (to be sure, name the
directory "linux", not "linux-<version>"), run "make-kpkg --rootcmf
fakeroot kernel_image" (or whatever root command you like), don't clean
the source tree, and look whether there's a symlink from
./debian/linux-image-<version>/lib/modules/<version>/source to
/home/hille/wherever/linux

Thanks in advance, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)