Re: [PATCH] asm*/resource.h fix for glibc

Jim Breton (jamesb-kernel@alongtheway.com)
Fri, 17 Dec 1999 21:13:30 -0500 (EST)


On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:

> > This works the same as Debian if you use the standard packages.
> > Upgrading kernel-headers does the right thing.
> >
> > But it's also friendly to kernel hackers.
>
> Oh yes. When you unpack a kernel in /usr/src, you overwrite the
> kernel-headers package -> things are broken bigtime

I always unpack kernel sources into /usr/local/src/ so as not to blow away
anything the distro (Debian) may have put into /usr/src/.

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