[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Building modules

[Daniel Baumann]

Michael Meskes wrote:
> 2) Are linux-modules-extra-2.6 supposed to be able to build on a
> different kernel? That means am I supposed to be able to build l-m-e-2.6
> for kernel 2.6.22 while running 2.6.23?

a binary module always has to be completely independet of the host 
systems kernel version at build-time (within some boundaries in special 
exceptions/occations/corner-cases, such as 2.4 vs 2.6); everything else 
is RC.

if virtualbox' makefiles do depend on the running kernel version in any 
way, this needs to be fixed, both for l-m-e-2.6 and for modass.

> I'd like to release 1.5.4-dfsg-1 as soon as the build process is fixed
> and 1.5.2-dfsg2-7 has moved to testing. Is this okay with you guys?

sure.

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