Hi, On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 03:04:22PM +0000, Hubertus A. Haniel wrote:
It also apears that SLES8 is affected by what ever bug is on SuSE 8.1 ( I have seen this happen with SP3 recently ) and hence no kernel-source.rpm.
Right.
Are there any plans on getting this bug fixed and a kernel-source.rpm?
Of course. The tarball is just a stopgap measure until we've nailed down the rpm bug that causes the kernel-source install problems.
I do not consider a tar file a very clean fix as rpm will no longer reflect what is on the box. Neither is it exactly easy to deploy tar files via auto yast and across a LOT of systems.
We felt reasonably comfortable with this solution because kernel-source is normally a package you rarely need to deplay across lots of systems. You don't even need it for normal development, only if you're a kernel hacker. Olaf -- Olaf Kirch | Stop wasting entropy - start using predictable okir@suse.de | tempfile names today! ---------------+