Sven, On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 05:05:27PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: > Ideally, i would build depend on kernel-headers-2.4, and have a option > that i can pass to debian/rules which would detect what kernel-headers > package provide this and set the kernel version accordyingly. > > Is this a better solution ? Why not makeing a unicorn-src package, providing the upstream tarball? Its always a major hassle to compile kernel-binaries (or module-binaries) for all available platforms/processors. So a source package is the preferred way to distribute kernel addons.
> How do other module packages handle this, do someone know at a good such
> package i could use as example ?
The current ALSA packages (apt-cache show alsa-source) are doing it
this way.
cu, Bastian
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