Re: apt-get source linux-image-$(uname -r) downloads incorrect version

[Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de>]

David Wittman <dwittman@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am trying to download the kernel source so that I can patch a kernel
> module, but I keep finding that it's pulling a more recent kernel release
> than the one I specify. IE:

> ```
> vagrant@debian-jessie:~$ uname -r
> 3.16.0-4-amd64
> vagrant@debian-jessie:~$ dpkg-query --show linux-image-$(uname -r)
> linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64 3.16.39-1
> ```

> So what ends up happening is `apt-get source linux-image-$(uname -r)`
> pulls the source for the kernel at 3.16.39-1 instead of 3.16.0-4 and
> my module builds with the incorrect magicver. I know I can do things
> to work around the magicver, but I'm just curious as to why I cannot
> pull the exact kernel specified.

3.16.0-4 is *not* the kernel version but the ABI name used. The real
kernel version (at the current time) is 3.16.39.

Everything behaves as it should and everything should work out of the
box.

Grüße,
Sven.

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