shouid the kernel-headers package equal "make headers_install"?

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at mindspring.com
Thu May 3 20:18:29 UTC 2007


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.

rday
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