On Fri, 4 May 2007, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Fri, 4 May 2007, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > > > > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > technically speaking, should the content of the kernel-headers > > > > package equal the output of running "make headers_install" on the > > > > kernel source tree? or something at least reasonably close? > > > > > > > Exactly the same. See > > > > > > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/fc6/en_US/sn-Devel.html#id2954262 > > > > ah, they're based on the 2.6.18 kernel. that probably explains why > > there's a few headers missing -- i'm guessing they're newer than that. > > thanks. > > They were based on 2.6.18 at the time of the release. When newer > kernels are pushed in as updated equivalent headers file packages > are also updated. Whatever issue you are trying to solve is likely > elsewhere. not really a problem, i just noticed a couple of MTD header files that were part of "make headers_install" but weren't in kernel-headers, so i just verified that they'd been added really recently. or so it seems. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ========================================================================
