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On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 15:20, Svyatogor wrote: |
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> AFAIK the version of headers and of kernel are supposed to be the same. But in |
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> this case, I'll have vanilla-sources-2.4.21 and say my iptables will be build |
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> against headers for 2.4.19. |
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> My question is: are there any plans to bump up the version of the headers |
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> package, or it is obsolete. In the later case, I guess, no package should |
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> depend on virtual/os-headers any more, but rather on virtual/linux-sources |
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> (or probably the *sources, shoudl provide os-headers). |
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The headers should be the same ones used to compile glibc. i.e. the |
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headers should match the library object files. Its been said many times |
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that /usr/include/{linux,asm} should not be symlinked to the kernel |
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sources. |
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