[18902] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 8.4.22: kernel upgraded without upgrading kernel-headers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Apr 10 23:31:54 2001
Message-Id: <200104110331.XAA05647@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
To: "Arun A Tharuvai" <aatharuv@MIT.EDU>
cc: bugs@MIT.EDU, davidmac@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Apr 2001 22:46:02 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 23:31:45 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> It was pointed out to me that the autoupdate upgrades the kernel
> from 2.2.16-3 to 2.2.17-4 without upgrading to the corresponding
> version of kernel-headers. This has the potential to cause problems
> when compiling and installing independent modules against it.
That's because Red Hat doesn't have an updated kernel-headers RPM in
their updates directory.
