No more kernel-source(code) ??? (was: rawhide report: 20040623 changes)

[Jack Neely]

On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 03:08:34PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Jun 25, 2004, Jack Neely <jjneely at pams.ncsu.edu> wrote:
> 
> > I do like the idea of having /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build symlink point
> > to /blah/blah/kernel-headers/arch.
> 
> This doesn't solve the problem of being able to install both i586 and
> i686 kernels on the same box, unless you make `uname -r` print
> different strings for them.  Otherwise, the rpms would still conflict,
> just like they do today.
> 

Why do you need to do this?  The idea is that you can build kernel
modules for any kernel no matter what kernel you happen to be booted
into.  

In fact you've not been able to do with with the 2.4 kernels in older
versions of FC/RHL.

Jack Neely

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