Package: kernel-package Version: 10.065 Severity: normal >From the discussion in an unrelated bug report:
> >> I agree. However, before submitting a bugreport I'd like to know > >> whether this problem still exists. Does anyone have a linux source > >> and kernel-package installed in a sid environment? > >> > > I do. Or say better I can prepare the box. What should I do? > > Ah, great. Unpack the sources below $HOME (to be sure, name the > directory "linux", not "linux-<version>"), run "make-kpkg --rootcmf > fakeroot kernel_image" (or whatever root command you like), don't clean > the source tree, and look whether there's a symlink from > ./debian/linux-image-<version>/lib/modules/<version>/source to > /home/hille/wherever/linux > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ pwd /home/hille/linux/debian/linux-image-2.6.18/lib/modules/2.6.18 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ ls -l source build lrwxrwxrwx 1 hille hille 17 Dec 8 12:51 build -> /home/hille/linux lrwxrwxrwx 1 hille hille 17 Dec 8 12:51 source -> /home/hille/linux [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ This symlink in the binary package to the location of the sources at build-time doesn't make sense, because usually they won't be available when the package is installed (IMHO, only symlinks to files in the package or in depended-on packages should be present in deb packages). I wrote that the symlink is also harmful because, before the tree is cleaned, it's a circular symlink, and not every piece of software that does some searching is able to handle this gracefully. Regards, Frank -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (99, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages kernel-package depends on: ii dpkg 1.10.28 Package maintenance system for Deb ii dpkg-dev 1.10.28 Package building tools for Debian ii file 4.12-1 Determines file type using "magic" ii gcc [c-compiler] 4:3.3.5-3 The GNU C compiler ii gcc-3.3 [c-compiler] 1:3.3.5-13 The GNU C compiler ii gettext 0.14.4-2 GNU Internationalization utilities ii make 3.81-1bpo1 The GNU version of the "make" util ii perl 5.8.4-8sarge5 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii po-debconf 1.0 manage translated Debconf template -- no debconf information -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
