On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Josh Cartwright <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Bruce- > > (Just dug this up because it was relevant to a conversation in the > office.) > > On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 11:20:11PM -0300, Bruce Ashfield wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 5:35 PM, Juro Bystricky <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Header files and scripts for building modules for Linux kernel. >> > >> > A set of files is needed to allow building new Linux kernel modules >> > against an already installed Linux kernel. The files include various >> > header files, script files, Makefiles, source code files for several >> > utility programs and Linux kerenl .config file. >> >> We already have our kernel devsrc packages. This is simply creating more >> copies of the same functionality. > > The kernel-devsrc package contains much more than is explicitly required > just to build external kernel modules (a full kernel source tree isn't > required), and the kernel-dev package doesn't install enough. Right > now, there is no "just enough". > >> If you have issues with devsrc .. why aren't you fixing it ? It certainly >> shouldn't be left as is, while introducing something new. > > I would expect this -headers package to contain a subset of what -devsrc > is currently installing; might an option be to make the -devsrc package > depend on this -headers package?
That's the rough plan. I'm looking into changing things this week, since I was catching up on backlog all last week. Bruce > > Josh -- "Thou shalt not follow the NULL pointer, for chaos and madness await thee at its end" -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
