Martin F. Krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > okay. so it's really just basic vanilla source (with patches > applied)? so the actual kernel data (not image) is in > kernel-headers?
Kernel-source contains a tarball /usr/src/kernel-source-x.x.x.tar.bz2 which has everything you need to compile a kernel the traditional way or make packages kernel-image, kernel-docs and kernel-headers. Kernel-headers contains just the headers, the .h-files. > what do you do if another piece of software needs both, headers and > source, corresponding to the current kernel (e.g. vmware)? it isn't > happy with just kernel-source (unconfigured), and it isn't happy > with just kernel-headers (no source files). But vmware _is_ happy with kernel-headers. I have only kernel-image and kernel-headers installed in my laptop and vmware modules compile just fine. (At least vmmon.o and vmnet.o do.) You do not need both packages. You either install kernel-source which includes the source _and_ the headers (and docs) _or_ you install kernel-image plus, if needed, kernel-headers. I, for instance, do not have enough diskspace on my laptop to hold kernel sources, I have all the sources in my other machine at which I make packages kernel-image and kernel-headers to be installed on the laptop. Oh, and what comes to the subject of this message, the .config is included in kernel-image also, as /boot/config-x.x.x. Suonpää...
