Steve Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SD> Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: HM> On Mon, Jan 05, 1998 at 08:59:50AM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote: LA> The kernel-source-2.0.32 deb has a 130K diff file against the LA> standard source. Just where do these patches come from and why LA> are they necessary? Is the fact that I _have_ to have 2.0.32 LA> source or headers going to stop me from going to 2.0.33? HM> HM> I don't know why all those patches are already applied. I have HM> stopped using the kernel-source packages because they can't be HM> patched up to the next kernel version easily (because of the HM> already applied patches). You should be able to install HM> kernel-headers to satisfy it and then dump the standard Linux HM> source tree in for building kernels. SD> SD> Does anyone know why there is a dependency on kernel-headers? I SD> was under the impression that glibc didn't use the kernel headers.
...or why it depends on kernel-headers-2.0.32 instead of just kernel-headers, which is provided by the kernel-source-* and kernel-headers-* packages? -- _____________________________ / \ "The cat's been in the box for over | David Maze | 20 years. Nobody's feeding it. The | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | cat is dead." | http://donut.mit.edu/dmaze/ | -- Grant, on Schroedinger's Cat \_____________________________/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .