On Tuesday 21 October 2003 5:58, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Tuesday 21 October 2003 08:48, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > > How must a package determine what kernel is system is using? > > it uses the /usr/src/linux symlink to determine running kernel ... if you > always have that set to your running kernel, packages should handle it > correctly (see nvidia-kernel for a good example) > -mike
But why do we keep up with the obselete link? I won't go into the rants against, as they are many and well documented, straight on back to the Head Penguin. But if packages were handling it correctly, they wouldn't be using the symlink to climb down to the includes. So we still have link climbing even though we have the linux-headers package which is supposed to prevent just that... -- Chuck Brewer Registered Linux User #284015 Get my gpg public key at pgp.mit.edu!! Encrypted e-mail preferred.
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