Re: kernel-image and kernel-sourc question

[Alexis Huxley <ahuxley@gmx.net>]

> For the 2.4.27 kernel there are a variety of
> sub-releases, such as kernel-image-2.4.27-1-686 that
> match up with header packages.
>
> Where is the source that these are compiled from? 
> There is only a generic kernel-source-2.4.27 package
> available.  And if I am interested in using the source
> I am forced to use the generic kernel-header-2.4.27
> package, correct? And will this lead to problems on my
> particular hardware?

The sources and headers are identical for these sub-releases.
The only thing that is different is the options selected
when the maintainer ran 'make menu-config' (or similar).
You can take a look at the config file in /boot to 
see the exact list of differences.

Alexis