On Mon, Jan 05, 1998 at 08:59:50AM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote: > On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > There is absolutely no necessity to have a kernel-source or > > kernel-headers package on your system (that I'm aware of). You can > > certainly dump your own copy of the Linux source tree into > > /usr/src/linux, compile it (with or without kernel-package/make-kpkg) > > and install it. dpkg/dselect won't care. I never use the source > > packages because I don't like the way they're already patched > > with some non-standard things in some cases. > > The kernel-source-2.0.32 deb has a 130K diff file against the standard > source. Just where do these patches come from and why are they necessary? > > Is the fact that I _have_ to have 2.0.32 source or headers going to stop > me from going to 2.0.33?
I don't know why all those patches are already applied. I have stopped using the kernel-source packages because they can't be patched up to the next kernel version easily (because of the already applied patches). You should be able to install kernel-headers to satisfy it and then dump the standard Linux source tree in for building kernels. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
