On Thu, Nov 7, 2019, at 3:46 PM, James Cassell wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 7, 2019, at 2:50 PM, Laura Abbott wrote: > > 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 Has it be superseded by another package?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? > > > > I compile my own patched kernel with a higher EVR than the packaged > kernel, but the kernel-headers package seems to pull in the kernel of > the same version despite my having a later one installed. > I should clarify that I'm doing a `fedpkg mockbuild` so the packaging should be identical to the shipped kernel. > Thanks for taking a look and explaining! > > > V/r, > James Cassell > _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
