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[Benoit PAPILLAULT <benoit.papillault AT sourcemage.org>]

Arwed von Merkatz a écrit :
> Several things are in the glibc-kernel-headers that definitely aren't
> normal:
> 1) it installs all headers, i386, ppc, sparc, ...

This is called multi arch kernel headers. It's what some other distro 
are using already (I looked at the Mandrake package). I had no problem 
compiling spells with those headers.

> 2) the /usr/include/asm it installs has files for /usr/include/mach-*,
> those are supposed to be directories, and always have been as far as i
> can tell

Don't know. Except the content of /usr/include/asm, other files are just 
those installed normally.

> 3) for some reason /usr/include/asm/mach-* don't get removed on dispel
> of glibc-kernel-headers, leading to glibc cast failing when it tries to
> copy the kernel headers

This bug has been reported here 
http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7538, which you take care 
(but which is still not fixed in stable). So, it's like the kernel 
source missing bug, if you asked me to hide this problems, I think it's 
just again our social contract :-)

> The ISO should always use stable grimoire and stable sorcery, as that's
> what users are supposed to use after installing, and downgrading stuff
> is not what we plan for when working on the grimoire.

OK. I'll document that on the wiki. I totally agree on that.

Benoit PAPILLAULT, ISO guru