On Friday, April 15, 2011 17:48:50 Sean Dague wrote:
> On 04/15/2011 05:23 PM, Chris Knadle wrote:
> > Interesting.  Dkms packages on Debian depend on a version of the Linux
> > kernel source code being installed; but I guess Fedora doesn't have that
> > same dependency.
> 
> You don't actually need the kernel source (just some headers and the
> build files) to build kernel modules, so neither Red Hat nor Canonical
> install kernel source by default.  On Ubuntu you get this same effect
> with linux-headers-generic package.
> 
>       -Sean

Huh... looks like my information wasn't current.  Apparently this is now the 
same on Debian, too -- depends on linux-headers packages and linux-kbuild 
packages.

  -- Chris

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