On 11/7/19 1:31 PM, James Cassell wrote:
On Thu, Nov 7, 2019, at 1:23 PM, Joseph D. Wagner wrote:
I am on kernel 5.3.8 but I still have
kernel-headers-5.3.6-200.fc30.x86_64, which hasn't updated.
Is there a reason a new kernel-headers package hasn't been generated for
the newer versions? Has it be superseded by another package? If so,
then dependencies on glibc-headers need to be fixed.
I've also been confused why kernel-headers is a separate SRPM...
The short answer is that kernel-headers doesn't need to be rebuilt
each time.
The longer answer is that we split it out to solve an issue
where kernel-headers were being built unnecessarily and triggering
rebuilds when they shouldn't. That problem is now being solved
another way but it's also useful to be able to build kernel-headers
independently so that if we don't want to build a kernel but do
want the headers we can easily do so.
kernel-headers is related to the userspace API and is not tied
to a particular kernel version. If the userspace API doesn't
change there's no need to rebuild. Is there a problem you're
seeing by not having an updated kernel-headers?
Thanks,
Laura
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