On 08/03/10 19:56, James Rayner wrote:
Apparently it's taken me 2 months to notice this because I've been building my own kernel, but I'll ask anyway... The kernel headers required to build kernel modules have been put in a separate package "kernel26-headers". We don't separate dev headers for anything else - why is this different?
From memory... the size of the headers warranted the splitting. It also cleaned up the PKGBUILD a lot and made it clear the entire source was not shipped.
Second, linux-api-headers used to be called "kernel-headers" and now there's easily 100 posts on the forum that say "the headers don't need to match the kernel" - which are all now completely incorrect.
That was part of the reason for renaming them. And that kernel26-headers and kernel-headers was too similar. But given that kernel26-headers will always have the same package version as the kernel26 package, this advise should not be needed anymore. Allan