FC2 kernel quality

Thorsten Leemhuis fedora at leemhuis.info
Thu Sep 30 19:28:24 UTC 2004


Am Donnerstag, den 30.09.2004, 21:18 +0200 schrieb Enrico Scholz:
> fedora at leemhuis.info (Thorsten Leemhuis) writes:
> 
> >> A possible solution would be the creation of a separate subpackage with
> >> the kernel-headers. These are to be installed either directly at
> >> /lib/modules/.../build, or (preferred) under /usr/src, /usr/share/... or
> >> ... and make /lib/modules/.../build a symlink to this place.
> > ...
> > Problem: Users that want to compile kernel modules (Nvidia Drivers...)
> > need to install the rpm.
> 
> I do not see the problem here. Only few software can be built without
> additional packages (you need at least gcc, make, perhaps m4, bison,
> ...). 

I see the problem. All those users of the nvidia driver will have
problems to build the kernel module. And what will they search for to
solve the problem: a kernel-source(code) rpm that is will not be part of
FC3 (as it seems). 

> When the case above would be very common, you can make the
> header-package part of the base-system but without requiring it
> explicitly. So it can be disabled on minimal installations.

Don't understand this. How to solve the problem with updated kernels and
the needed headers for those? Add them all to one package and update
this every time a kernel-update is released -- this will be a big
package after some kernel-updates... 

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Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info>




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