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stefanwilkens

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From: Enschede, the Netherlands

Registered: 2008-12-10

Posts: 624

[SOLVED] kernel and kernel-headers are not of the same version?

From way back in the days of suse 4, trying to compile my own kernel and building my own apps, I seem to remember that it's befinicial to have the kernel-headers with the same revision as the actual running kernel when compiling new apps.

I can see how a little version shift wont make a lot of difference in a lot of cases, as long as the required information isn't changed the build should go fine... however, the versions in the repos at the moment seem pretty far off!

kernel26 is currently: 2.6.27.8-1
kernel-headers is cirrently: 2.6.26.3-1

can anybody comment?

Last edited by stefanwilkens (2008-12-14 17:35:07)

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Dheart

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From: Sofia, Bulgaria

Registered: 2006-10-26

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Re: [SOLVED] kernel and kernel-headers are not of the same version?

kernel-headers requires rebuilding the glibc. Those packages are currently in testing. I haven't had a problem building anything. Someone more knowledgeble on the subject could tell you (and me) Why the process with 2.6.28 kernel-headers is so slow (The 2.6.27 kernel headers came to core just a couple of days after the kernel update.)

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stefanwilkens

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From: Enschede, the Netherlands

Registered: 2008-12-10

Posts: 624

Re: [SOLVED] kernel and kernel-headers are not of the same version?

This seems rather important when building packs from source... why the delay O_o

Last edited by stefanwilkens (2008-12-14 16:21:36)

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ghostHack

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From: Bristol UK

Registered: 2008-02-29

Posts: 261

Re: [SOLVED] kernel and kernel-headers are not of the same version?

The kernel-headers package are the headers used to build the system C library (glibc) and need to remain the same (until a new glibc is built).

What you are thinking of is the kernel source headers which are part of the kernel26 package (pacman -Ql kernel26).

Last edited by ghostHack (2008-12-14 16:56:49)

stefanwilkens

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From: Enschede, the Netherlands

Registered: 2008-12-10

Posts: 624

Re: [SOLVED] kernel and kernel-headers are not of the same version?

ahhhh, there we go. That was indeed what I was referring too, thanks for clearing this one up for me.

thanks ghostHack

Last edited by stefanwilkens (2008-12-14 17:34:47)

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