Hello, On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 07:35:52AM +1200, Fred Cooke wrote: > Thanks for the quick replies! I love that I run Sid (on 4 machines), only > notice something worth reporting every 2 years or so, and get immediate > responses! <3 Debian. > > I've not built a Kernel (or any related part) in a VERY long time, I think > maybe 2.6.something? I've simply not needed to. I still don't need to :-) > > I'm aware of the need being only for kernel headers, however I've been > burned on Sid before by not grabbing them at the time of the image, and not > being able to grab them later as they are not persisted in parallel in the > repo. Then you're forced to get a new kernel and headers, and back then, > that meant possible bugs/changed behaviours that I didn't want. So I always You don't know about http://snapshot.debian.org/ ?
> install headers up front. And I should use meta packages to do that, but > haven't been in the past. > > Meta-packages that glue this stuff all together seem to be missing from > experimental too. If you don't care, it's fine by me. Just letting you know > in case it was an oversight. Yeah, that's known, too. Usually there is just noone to volunteer updating them for experimental, same as for kbuild. Best regards Uwe -- Pengutronix e.K. | Uwe Kleine-König | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150423064909.gj23...@pengutronix.de