-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 7 Nov 2005 11:21:39 +0100 Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Monday 07 November 2005 10:52, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > That's silly. I have compiled a kernel image, I have the > > sources lying around, and now I must compile a headers package > > and install it, duplicating loads of files, just to compile a > > module? Why? Upstream Makefile already install the source and build > > links, which work, why go out of our way to remove them to make the > > end user install yet another package? > > I agree with Manoj here: the user should have the option of having > _either_ the full kernel sources installed _or_ the kernel headers > package. > Does the scheme proposed by the kernel team make this possible? If the scheme includes the plan for module-building summarized by Sven [1] then I believe the answer is no. If instead the scheme includes the adjusted[3] plan for module-building [2] then I believe the answer is yes. I would appreciate more info on that scheme[4] - and would be happy to put it on wiki if it is not already documented somewhere. - Jonas [1] http://wiki.debian.org/KernelModulesPackaging?action=recall&rev=2 [2] http://wiki.debian.org/KernelModulesPackaging?action=recall&rev=8 [3] Sven feels strongly about the kernel team mentioned on the adjusted page. [4] A "read backlog" is no use: IRC is for chatting, not documenting! - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDbz1hn7DbMsAkQLgRAgsWAJoCJcPTLUG1VUlheniE8pZqKTdObACeMKbk whm0D1eLzvWq7Tlhjt+rEUU= =H9aR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
