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On Tuesday 21 October 2003 5:58, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 21 October 2003 08:48, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: |
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> > How must a package determine what kernel is system is using? |
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> |
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> it uses the /usr/src/linux symlink to determine running kernel ... if you |
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> always have that set to your running kernel, packages should handle it |
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> correctly (see nvidia-kernel for a good example) |
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> -mike |
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But why do we keep up with the obselete link? I won't go into the rants |
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against, as they are many and well documented, straight on back to the Head |
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Penguin. But if packages were handling it correctly, they wouldn't be using |
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the symlink to climb down to the includes. So we still have link climbing |
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even though we have the linux-headers package which is supposed to prevent |
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just that... |
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Chuck Brewer |
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Registered Linux User #284015 |
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Get my gpg public key at pgp.mit.edu!! Encrypted e-mail preferred. |
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