Re: Kernel compile comments

["Jonathan D. Proulx" <jon@ai.mit.edu>]

Hi,

Having used Debian for my whole GNU/Linux life, I've noticed that
fresh installs of late don't have the kernel compilation tools I'd
expect.

Most notably binutils and libncurses-dev seem to be missing even after
I apt-get the kernel-source (I don't expect Debian to be psychic and
know about my trips to kernel.org).

This has happend on all the systems I've installed from 2.2r0 and
2.2.r2 CDROMs (>=6 I've tried compiling kernels on)

The package clearly states correct Depends:

[jon@amergin bin]$ apt-cache showpkg kernel-source-2.2.18
Package: kernel-source-2.2.18
Versions:
2.2.18-1(/var/state/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages),
Reverse Depends: 
  kernel-patch-2.2.18-reiserfs,kernel-source-2.2.18
  kernel-patch-2.2.18-openwall,kernel-source-2.2.18
Dependencies: 
2.2.18-1 - binutils (0 (null)) bzip2 (0 (null)) fileutils (2 4.0)
libncurses-dev (16 (null)) ncurses-dev (0 (null)) task-tcltk-dev (0
(null)) kernel-package (0 (null)) bin86 (0 (null)) libc-dev (0 (null))
gcc (0 (null)) make (0 (null)) 
Provides: 
2.2.18-1 - kernel-source 
Reverse Provides: 


Anyone else having similar issues? or have I started consistently
doing something wrong?

note machines installed with Debian 2.0 and upgraded over time have
never had this problem.

-Jon