On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 07:44:15PM -0400, Chris Kloiber wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 01:23:38 +0200, Axel Thimm <axel.thimm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 07:20:32AM -0400, Build System wrote: > > > kernel-2.6.7-1.448 > > > * Mon Jun 21 2004 Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > - make kernel-doc and kernel-sourcecode builds independent of eachother > > > - disable kernel-sourcecode builds entirely, we'll be replacing it with documentation > > > on how to use the src.rpm instead for building your own kernel. > > > > We just recently had the discussion of how many documented processes > > will get broken with the kernel-source -> kernel-sourcecode > > change. Not having it at all doesn't really improve that. ;) > > > > What's the idea behind this? And what about people building external > > kernel modules? For the reasons outlined in the previous thread on > > this /lib/modules/`uname -r` is not adequate for that. Having the > > kernel-source package change its name is one thing we can adapt > > to (even though it was not necessary). Having it disappear for the > > face of earth is another :( > > > > Please, get it back! > > While I'm far from an expert, the headers needed to build 3rd party > modules are now packaged with the kernel proper (that's one reason > it's taking so long to install a new kernel nowadays). In theory, yes, but try to build a kernel module for i686 on an athlon box. The kernel sources will clash with the running kernel. Also it is quite an overshooting to have to install a foreign kernel for a simple build of a kernel module. Installing/Uninstalling the kernel will take more time than the kernel module build itself. But that could be solved by packaging the headers in separate (from the kernel) packages. > The kernel-sourcecode package is sort of redundant as the actual > source is in the kernel*.src.rpm anyway, but can be built (as i did) > by editing the kernel-2.6.spec and changing the line near the top to > say "build sourcecode=1" instead of 0. Of course, but if the kernel-source(code) gets considered obsolete and deprecated this will not stay for long there. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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