"Aaron M. Ucko" writes:
> Historically, /usr/src/linux-headers-VERSION-FLAVOR used to contain
> symlinks into /usr/src/linux-headers-VERSION-common for anything not at
> least potentially flavor-specific. As of 2.6.29-1, that no longer
> holds, causing trouble for packages such as openafs-module
Package: linux-headers-2.6.29-1-amd64
Version: 2.6.29-1
Severity: normal
Historically, /usr/src/linux-headers-VERSION-FLAVOR used to contain
symlinks into /usr/src/linux-headers-VERSION-common for anything not at
least potentially flavor-specific. As of 2.6.29-1, that no longer
holds, causing tro
severity 521515 wishlist
tags 521515 wontfix
thanks
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 09:02:04PM -0400, Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
> As of 2.6.29-1, that no longer
> holds, causing trouble for packages such as openafs-modules-source that
> don't entirely defer to the kbuild fra
Russ Allbery writes:
> OpenAFS *does* use kbuild. Aaron, what exactly breaks? Example error
> messages? Is it just the symlinking to standardize the names of the
> header files across platforms that doesn't work?
Yes:
| CC [M]
/usr/src/modass/usr_src/modules/openafs/src/libafs/MODLOAD-2.6
u...@debian.org (Aaron M. Ucko) writes:
> OpenAFS could probably adapt by changing h, netinet, and sys under
> MODLOAD-* from symlinks to .../include/linux to directories containing
> forwarding headers; I'm not sure which specific headers would need such
> treatment, but I suspect there are quite
u...@debian.org (Aaron M. Ucko) writes:
> Not quite; I believe they'd become linux/in.h, linux/types.h, etc.
Oh, good point.
> Moreover, a lot of the inclusions were indirect; for instance, the
> #include directive for ultimately came from
> (copied from .../src/config/). As such, I'm not con
Russ Allbery writes:
> egrep -r '#include +["<](sys|netinet|h)/' *.[ch] LINUX/ | awk '{ print $2 }'
> | sed -e 's,\.\./,,' -e 's/["<>]//g' | sort -u
>
> and as near as I can tell, on Linux, all those headers have the same name
> but just have no directory prefix. So netinet/in.h becomes just in
Russ Allbery writes:
> Could you open a bug on the openafs package when you get a chance
> (tomorrow or whenever) and we'll continue this there? It looks like
Filed as #521745. Kernel maintainers, apologies for the topic drift here.
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Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debi
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 11:28:07PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote:
> severity 521515 wishlist
> tags 521515 wontfix
> thanks
>
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 09:02:04PM -0400, Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
> > As of 2.6.29-1, that no longer
> > holds, causing trouble for packages
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 08:19:32PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> Out of couriosity (and to try and fix the nvidia driver build system)...
> Documented by who? Debian or the linux kernel?
Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt in the Linux source.
Bastian
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On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:16:39AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 08:19:32PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > Out of couriosity (and to try and fix the nvidia driver build system)...
> > Documented by who? Debian or the linux kernel?
>
> Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt i
So what can someone do to compile the binary NVIDIA drivers? Does anyone
have a list of files that I need to symlink? I have also tried
downloading the linux-source-2.6.29 package, but that fails to provide
some files the driver needs as well.
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> severity 521515 wishlist
Bug#521515: linux-headers-2.6.29-1-amd64: please restore symlinks into -common
Severity set to `wishlist' from `normal'
> tags 521515 wontfix
Bug#521515: linux-headers-2.6.29-1-amd64: please restore symli
u...@debian.org (Aaron M. Ucko) writes:
> Forwarding to Russ, who maintains a package that this change (which came
> without warning TTBOMK) seriously inconveniences; please keep him Cc:ed.
[...]
> From: Bastian Blank
> There is no reliable way to detect the include paths of the kernel
> witho
Forwarding to Russ, who maintains a package that this change (which
came without warning TTBOMK) seriously inconveniences; please keep him
Cc:ed.
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severity 521515 wishlist
tags 521515 wontfix
thanks
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 09:02:04PM -0400, Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
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