Re: kernel-headers-2.0.32 vs. kernel-headers-2.0.33
Hi,
Congratulations! You have just introduced a subtle bug on your
system. It may work, and possibly never cause a problem, but
there is a bomb ticking away, waiting to explode ;-)
There is a reason there is a versioned dependency for
libc6-dev. The reasons are explained in a libc6-dev FAQ. I have also
posted it in a related document.
I think I have changed my mind. I think libc6 should really
get a package all its own, called libc6-kernel-headers. I do not know
whether I can push it into 2.0, but I shall try.
All this silly snipping of links and upgrading to incompatible
headers may cease then.
manoj
>>"Rev" == Rev Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@earthlink.net> writes:
Rev> [1 <text/plain; us-ascii (7bit)>] On Sun, Apr 12, 1998 at
Rev> 03:42:12PM -0600, Tamas Papp wrote:
>> My problem was that I couldn't not substitute kernel-headers-2.0.32
>> with kernel-headers-2.0.33 in the sense that libc6-dev depends on
>> the former but it doesn't accept the latter instead, so my problem
>> was a dependency problem.
Rev> I deleted the 2.0.32 headers and symlinks, then just changed the
Rev> symlinks to inside /usr/src/linux/, which seemed to make a few
Rev> probrams happier when compiling. I have to fix these symlinks
Rev> everytime I unstall new libc6-dev and naturally I have to make
Rev> sure /usr/src/linux is linked to something useful (at the moment
Rev> /usr/src/kernel/linux which is in turn linked to
Rev> /usr/src/kernel/linux-2.1.95--aren't symlinks fun?)
Rev> Why the extra kernel dir? I use kernel-package which puts a
Rev> kernel-image .deb in the dir above the kernel directory, which is
Rev> normally /usr/src by most conventions. This behavior is
Rev> undesirable to me, so I place all my package-related things in
Rev> subdirs, .orig.tar.gz, .diff.gz, .dsc, .deb, and the source code.
Rev> This idea came from the qmail-src package before I started
Rev> rebuilding packages for my own needs (I can build a fresh package
Rev> but it's a very slow process since I do not yet know all the
Rev> tools to make it easier) so I suppose I've kinda done it since I
Rev> started doing things this way, but.
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