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Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:30:39 -0600
From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
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To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
CC: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Kernel version numbering scheme change
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Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 12:55:44AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 09:47:51AM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>> ...
>>> Packages are built in a chroot with the correct release installed.
>> Then why would this break if they are being built against the correct,
>> older, kernel?
> 
> How could you build userspace "against a kernel"?

I imagine many embedded products regularly build (or even cross-build) a 
kernel and a matching userspace against that kernel, independent of the 
running kernel on the build machine.  I know that we do it every day...

Chris
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