Bug#518412: linux-2.6 install errors due to incompatible depmod files [was Re: Bug#518412: initramfs-tools: must support relative paths in modules.dep ]

2009-03-20 Thread Jon Masters
On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 12:05 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Mar 20, Scott James Remnant sc...@canonical.com wrote: Doesn't Debian run depmod in the postinst of the kernel package - and iirc, again on boot anyway? Not anymore on boot, but I can't see why depmod should NOT being run when the

Bug#518412: linux-2.6 install errors due to incompatible depmod files [was Re: Bug#518412: initramfs-tools: must support relative paths in modules.dep ]

2009-03-19 Thread Jon Masters
On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 21:13 +0100, maximilian attems wrote: [ adding jcm and lkml to Cc: ] [ You want linux-modu...@vger.kernel.org rather than LKML. I've added the former to the CC list, we can kill LKML off the CC shortly. ] That would mean that m-i-t has created a backwards incompatibility

Bug#518412: linux-2.6 install errors due to incompatible depmod files [was Re: Bug#518412: initramfs-tools: must support relative paths in modules.dep ]

2009-03-19 Thread Jon Masters
On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 21:57 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: Because the old modprobe does not understand the new relative (or rather rootless) paths, aggravated by the fact that initramfs-tools does not error out or display errors from modprobe (probably for good historic reasons), I suddenly had

Bug#518412: linux-2.6 install errors due to incompatible depmod files [was Re: Bug#518412: initramfs-tools: must support relative paths in modules.dep ]

2009-03-19 Thread Jon Masters
On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 23:09 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 19 March 2009, Jon Masters wrote: Yes, it was a bad idea of mine (perhaps) to change the existing file format and I've learned something, but it should only have affected for example that 3.4 release you're using. Do you

Bug#518412: linux-2.6 install errors due to incompatible depmod files [was Re: Bug#518412: initramfs-tools: must support relative paths in modules.dep ]

2009-03-19 Thread Jon Masters
On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 23:58 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: I guess it's called progress ;) Sarcasm aside, if you can give me an example of an actual real life set of users who are adversely affected then I'll try to do something to help out. But if you're asking for old versions of software to