Re: A few questions.
On 9 Jan 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>
> The kernel-source package is just the "pure" sources from
> Linux in /usr/src/kernel-source-X.XXX directory. Nothing is added to
> that directory tree. It does contain pre and post install scripts to
> help maintain /usr/src/linux symlink -- you can then have multiple
This link is no longer needed to compile kernels. My kernel
source trees are in /usr/local/pub/kernels with no links to
anywhere.
> The point is, there is no difference in the kernel code. The
> statement that the kernel source package is less fine tuned
> than the original sources is a fallacy.
>
That's true. I just had kernel sources already and have
downloaded the releatively small patches along the way intead of
the whole source tree again. I might be a cool thing to have a
kernel-patches package though. This would need to depend on
kernel sources of course.
Richard G. Roberto
richr@bear.com
011-81-3-3437-7967 - Tokyo, Japan
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