[arch-general] linux-api-headers in core is 3.1.5 while linux is 3.1.6

[Allan McRae]

On 06/01/12 18:00, Patrick Buddeberg wrote:
>>> Maybe is my little understanding of the situation, but isn't
>>> linux-api-headers behind what it (appears to me that it) should be?
> 
>> The linux-api-headers package is entirely unrelated to the running or
>> installed kernel. It contains the headers that give glibc the API to the
>> Linux kernel, and must never (NEVER NEVER NEVER) be different from the
>> version that glibc was built against.
>>
>> Please, someone give me a cent for every time this question is asked.
>>
> 
> It may help if this information is in an easily reachable area, as I
> couldn't find it anywhere after searching the wiki and forums followed
> by the internet as a whole. The closest thing that I found was from
> LFS, but this actually makes it seem like it is very closely bound to
> both kernel and glibc.
> 

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