Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Dec 1999 22:06:07 -0500 | From | Ben Collins <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] asm*/resource.h fix for glibc |
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On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 09:13:30PM -0500, Jim Breton wrote: > On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > > > This works the same as Debian if you use the standard packages. > > > Upgrading kernel-headers does the right thing. > > > > > > But it's also friendly to kernel hackers. > > > > Oh yes. When you unpack a kernel in /usr/src, you overwrite the > > kernel-headers package -> things are broken bigtime > > > I always unpack kernel sources into /usr/local/src/ so as not to blow away > anything the distro (Debian) may have put into /usr/src/.
The kernel-headers package isn't used by the libc6-dev package. The only reason it is available is for compiling glibc itself. So unless you plan on doing that, remove all of your kernel-headers packages. You can then install whatever you like in /usr/src with no fear of breaking the systems header files.
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