Re: potential mayhem with trial libc6 package and kernel-headers

1997-12-20 Thread john
Manoj Srivastava writes: > Error configuring $package: /usr/src/linux-$version does not seem to > be a symbolic link, possibly from an old package or a left-over > from a user installed kernel. Please remove > /usr/src/linux-$version and try to reconfigure $package. I suggest you

Re: potential mayhem with trial libc6 package and kernel-headers

1997-12-20 Thread Bart Schuller
On Dec 20, Manoj Srivastava wrote > > "Bart" == Bart Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bart> Particularly if they happened to have a fully unpacked and > Bart> configured kernel source tree in /usr/src/linux . > > Bart> * Poof * > > No it does not! Would you please look at what the

Re: potential mayhem with trial libc6 package and kernel-headers

1997-12-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Karl" == Karl M Hegbloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Bart" == Bart Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bart> Particularly if they happened to have a fully unpacked and Bart> configured kernel source tree in /usr/src/linux . Bart> * Poof * No it does not! Would you please l

Re: potential mayhem with trial libc6 package and kernel-headers

1997-12-20 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "Bart" == Bart Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bart> Particularly if they happened to have a fully unpacked and Bart> configured kernel source tree in /usr/src/linux . Bart> * Poof * Perhaps the `kernel-headers' install script ought to look for an existing /usr/src/linux

Re: potential mayhem with trial libc6 package and kernel-headers

1997-12-19 Thread Bart Schuller
On Dec 19, Rob Browning wrote > People who weren't using kernel-headers before (because they never > needed it), may be in for a shock. Particularly if they happened to have a fully unpacked and configured kernel source tree in /usr/src/linux . * Poof * It's only a slight inconvenience, but

Re: potential mayhem with trial libc6 package and kernel-headers

1997-12-19 Thread Rob Browning
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I genrally unpack into /usr/src/local and mv things one level > up, personally. That seems reasonable. I guess I had just sort of always treated /usr/src/ as if it was local, even though I probably shouldn't have. > Rob> Now I'm happy to ju

Re: potential mayhem with trial libc6 package and kernel-headers

1997-12-19 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Rob" == Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rob> I recently installed the new libc6 experiental pacakges which Rob> also wants you to install kernel-headers. The problem is that Rob> kernel-headers thinks it "owns" /usr/src/linux. For users using Rob> the kernel-package (or whatvever