[wellylug] Debian kernel builders?

[Enkidu]

On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 12:22:57 +1300, you wrote:

>On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 11:26:41 +1300, Enkidu <enkidu at cliffp.com> wrote:
>> 
>[snip]
>> Yeah I looked at that, I'm not trying to build a package though. 
>
>Sorry. I must have misunderstood.  Forgive me if the following seems a
>bit pedantic:
>
>> 
>> >On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 10:52:23 +1300, Enkidu <enkidu at cliffp.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I don't often re-builld kernels since I prefer the bre-built variety.
>> >> However, I am trying to rebuild a kernel. 
>
>OK - You want to rebuild a kernel...
>
>> >>I've got the kernel-source
>> >> package for version 2.4.xx, 
>
>...from the Debian source package...
>
>> >>but there doesn't seem to be a 2.4.xx of
>> >> the kernel-headers package. 
>
>...and you can't find a source package for kernel-headers.
>
>Is this correct?
>
Yes. Though if we are being pedantic the kernel-source package is not
a source package (as in deb-src). At least, as I understand the
terminology!

Having done a bit of reading it appears that the original k-h package
was made to support the kernel and modules built for it. Somewhere in
there there was a schism, and the k-s package was built to include the
kernel headers, and the k-h package became a package generated from
the k-s package for building modules against the kernel. 

Cheers,

Cliff