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

[Robert P. J. Day]

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
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