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On Sunday 22 August 2004 11:45, Bob Arendt wrote:
Now the kernel headers are included with each kernel install!
Fantastic! No more special builds. ASCII headers compress really
well, so there's little inflation in binary-kernel rpm size. And it's
much easier to build & install the 3rd party hardware drivers we use.
Now 3rd party delivered build scripts "just work" since the correct
headers can always be found with the kernel. Vendors have gotten
fewer callbacks regarding installation. It no longer depends on the
last state of the /usr/src/linux* since someone last used the
kernel-source. In fact, it removes the kernel-source requirement
entirely.
What do I need to tell my vendors then? I constantly have to dig up header
files that aren't in /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/ such as SCSI headers.
sd.h scsi_mod.h hosts.h etc.... I have to pull them from a sourcecode or
src.rpm in order to build my 3rd party module. Having the matching
sourcecode rpm helped, although I can get around that. I'm more
interested in educating my vendors so that I don't have to dig this stuff
up.
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