On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 11:09:20AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > The point here is to make packages start moving to Build-Dep'ing on > kernel-headers-* packages. The question is, how to allow them to do that > easily. > > IMO, we can use alternatives. And it should be fairly easy > > update-alternatives --install /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.2 kernel-headers-2.2 \ > /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.2.<rev> <rev> > > Where "<rev>" would be something like "19" (as in 2.2.19). This way each > newer version would be prefered over the former. The only problem I see > are the -preX releases. Someone would have to suggest how to handle that > case since the priority field wont accept letters.
How about: use 100*<rev> as the priority for standard kernel releases, and 100*<rev>+X for a -preX release and hope that there are never more than 99 pre-releases ;-) -S
