On Thu, Nov 7, 2019, at 2:50 PM, Laura Abbott wrote: > On 11/7/19 1:31 PM, James Cassell wrote: > > > > On Thu, Nov 7, 2019, at 1:23 PM, Joseph D. Wagner wrote: > >> I am on kernel 5.3.8 but I still have > >> kernel-headers-5.3.6-200.fc30.x86_64, which hasn't updated. > >> > >> Is there a reason a new kernel-headers package hasn't been generated for > >> the newer versions? Has it be superseded by another package? If so, > >> then dependencies on glibc-headers need to be fixed. > >> > > > > I've also been confused why kernel-headers is a separate SRPM... > > > > The short answer is that kernel-headers doesn't need to be rebuilt > each time. > > The longer answer is that we split it out to solve an issue > where kernel-headers were being built unnecessarily and triggering > rebuilds when they shouldn't. That problem is now being solved > another way but it's also useful to be able to build kernel-headers > independently so that if we don't want to build a kernel but do > want the headers we can easily do so. > > kernel-headers is related to the userspace API and is not tied > to a particular kernel version. If the userspace API doesn't > change there's no need to rebuild. Is there a problem you're > seeing by not having an updated kernel-headers? >
I compile my own patched kernel with a higher EVR than the packaged kernel, but the kernel-headers package seems to pull in the kernel of the same version despite my having a later one installed. Thanks for taking a look and explaining! V/r, James Cassell _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
