I'm sure there is a reason, but I find it weird that alpine running kernel 6.6.4 (Alpine Linux 3.19.0) doesn't have a linux-lts-dev
package for the same kernel. I can only find one for 6.6.12-lts.

I'm trying to build LKMs inside alpine, and I would like to build them
for my currently running system. That would require kbuild, which is
packaged together with linux-lts-dev. I know I could compile it from source, but it takes a bit too long for our setup.

Thank you in advance,
Olle Lögdahl

On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 9:22 AM Olle Lögdahl <olle.logdahl@umu.se> wrote:
>
> I'm sure there is a reason, but I find it weird that alpine running kernel 6.6.4 (Alpine Linux 3.19.0) doesn't have a linux-lts-dev
> package for the same kernel. I can only find one for 6.6.12-lts.
>
> I'm trying to build LKMs inside alpine, and I would like to build them
> for my currently running system. That would require kbuild, which is
> packaged together with linux-lts-dev. I know I could compile it from source, but it takes a bit too long for our setup.
>
> Thank you in advance,
> Olle Lögdahl

Hello Olle,

This is expected. We don't keep older versions of packages, so if you
didn't install the -dev package at the same time as
the kernel, and the kernel is updated, the old version of that package
is no longer available.

Kind regards,
Kevin