[Pkg-xen-devel] xen kernel headers, new kernel modules with a-i

Henning Sprang henning_sprang at gmx.de
Mon Jul 30 11:15:04 UTC 2007


Jean Daniel wrote:
>>> "apt-get source xen-linux-system-$(uname -r)"
> 
>> you should not need to do
>> any apt-get source and whatever when using m-i,
> 
> The "m-a a-i" part needs the kernel sources or kernel headers. Since I
> installed the debian xen binary package, the sources are not
> installed.

But m-a takes care of that himself, no need tfor you to call apt-get
spurce, AFAIK.

> 
> The kernel headers exist for vserver, but there seems to be no kernel
> headers for xen ...  It seems incomplete that the debian xen kernel
> package exists without the sources, though! It is unexpected to
> request the 2.6.18 sources but obtain the sources of 2.6.21.

Yes, maybe - I don't know why that happened. Maybe also because there
just isn't any 2.6.18 kernel, neither in lenny, nor in unstable, nor in
sarge:

> 
> I put the following in my sources.list
> deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ sarge main non-free contrib
> deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ sarge main non-free contrib
> 
> "aptitude search xen | grep header" returns nothing

Yes, because you use sarge - you want Etch!

> PS: why my message do not appear in the alioth mailing list archive?
> Do I need to get approved first?


Your messages come through to the list (and please keep including the
list in your mails).

Henning



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