Woody/stable: kernel-source-* kernel-headers-* ?!? Confused.
Could someone please 'splain to me what goes with what here? I've
updated to 3.0r2. The plan so far is:
(i) Install kernel-image-2.4.18-686
(ii) Go for updated kernel sources and re-build.
I see there's kernel-source-2.4.18 and:
kernel-headers-2.4.18 - Header files related to Linux kernel version 2.4.18
kernel-headers-2.4.18-686 - Linux kernel headers 2.4.18 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV
kernel-headers-2.4.18-1-686 - Linux kernel headers 2.4.18 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV
kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4 - Headers for Linux kernel version 2.4.18 (bf variant) on 386
Will all of those work with kernel-source-2.4.18? Which one _should_
I be using (PIII laptop workstation box; not server)? What's "bf
variant" and why should I care? One of the google pages I looked at
said, "The bf2.4 kernel is limited by the desire to keep it on
floppies during installation." I can't imagine why I would want to do
that. If it doesn't boot, I'll just slap a bootable CD in, boot from
that, and fix whatever's broken. I don't think I need to care about
bf*, or am I missing something?
I'm booting with grub, fwiw.
Thanks, much appreciated.
PS Just a suggestion, but it might help, in the future, if those
descriptions above were tightened up a bit. Both
kernel-headers-2.4.18-686 and kernel-headers-2.4.18-1-686 are
described the same.
PPS For extra marks :-), why the proliferation of source & header
packages? I thought this kind of thing was supposed to be
controlled by #ifdef & friends. I can understand having
thirteen pre-built kernel-image packages, but why sixteen
kernel-headers-2.4.18?
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