Re: [Sheflug] Re: Kernel places

[Guennadi Liakhovetski <nospam [at] ragingbull.com>]

On Tue, 1 May 2001, Craig Andrews wrote:

> I am going to leave 2.2.18 in /usr/src/linux, and symlink it to
> /usr/include/linux, and keep 2.4.4 in my home directory, so I can mess about
> logged in as me.

yep, just make sure it is THE 2.2.18, supplied by SuSE for this particular
purpose...

> I don't trust RPMs...

you'll have to trust libc.rpm and the corresponding <kernel_headers>.rpm,
unless you want to recompile glibc yourself... I once did it - I didn't
know then how potentially dangerous it can be... surprisingly, it
worked:-), but I won't do it again UNLESS it's ABSOLUTELY necessary:-)

Guennadi
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Dr. Guennadi V. Liakhovetski
Department of Applied Mathematics
University of Sheffield, U.K.
email: G.Liakhovetski [at] sheffield.ac.uk


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