Duplicate kernel-headers after upgrading to 2.6.35

Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com
Fri Oct 15 15:27:41 UTC 2010


On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Ryad Ben-El-Kezadri
<ryad.bek at gmail.com> wrote:
> Indeed, I made a mistake:
> the new headers are installed at the end of the installation process
> with (see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/CustomKernel):
> su -c 'rpm -ivh kernel-<version>.<arch>.rpm
> kernel-firmware-<version>.<arch>.rpm
> kernel-headers-<version>.<arch>.rpm kernel-devel-<version>.<arch>.rpm'
>
> But still the problem is the same:
> I need to
> 1)first patch the kernel
> 2)then compile some apps in userland
>
> and I do not know what kernel headers version (old or new) to use for step 1
> and step 2.
>
> Ryad
>
> PS: here is what I got when I do
> rpm -qa | grep kernel-headers
> kernel-headers-2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686
> kernel-headers-2.6.35.6-43.fc13.i686

If you don't know what kernel version you need to patch, we certainly
won't either.  Especially when we have no idea why you need to patch
it, or what the patch does.

Also, building applications against kernel headers is a practice that
is generally discouraged overall.

josh


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