kernel sources

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Tue Feb 8 02:24:20 UTC 2005


On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 12:07:27AM -0800, Chuck Vose wrote:

> > For Ubuntu kernels, use linux-source-*, not kernel-source-*. Most of the
> > kernel-* packages are imports from Debian.
> 
> Seems like a consistent source of confusion, is there a reason we're
> keeping both kernels? Can we name them something different?

I hoped that the main/universe distinction would be sufficient (it should
be, in Synaptic); we don't want to remove the kernels entirely because some
folks might want to use them (they are a different kernel tree, after all).

Is there another way we can reduce the confusion?

-- 
 - mdz




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