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Package: modutils
Version: 2.3.11-13.1
I compile kernels as `ian', a user which security-wise is equivalent
to root, but which doesn't have immediate write access everywhere,
which helps prevent mistakes. This is a reasonably common, and
reasonable, configuration.
However, depmod complains that my modules are not owned by root.
Furthermore, even if I make the modules owned by root, the link
`/lib/modules/2.4.2/build' made by the upstream Linux 2.4.2 kernel
source tree `make modules_install' is followed, so that depmod
complains about my whole kernel tree.
I have three complaints:
* Firstly, I'm pretty sure depmod shouldn't follow that symlink.
Removing it helps my symptoms (at least if I do the modules_install as
root).
* Secondly, the warnings from depmod need to be easier to turn off. I
want a file somewhere where I can nobble all of Debian's invocations
of depmod. I couldn't find a place to do this.
* Thirdly, the text in the manpage is wrong. The warnings only matter
if the account which owns the modules is not in practice able to
become root soon anyway. There are several ways for accounts to be
able to do this, such as unrestricted sudo, which are not unreasonable
under many conditions.
Ian.
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This package has been removed from Debian unstable. I'm therefore
closing this bug report. The package has been removed because it
has been replaced by module-init-tools. modutils was for 2.4 kernels
only. It's quite unlikely that your bug still exists in
module-init-tools, but please let me know if it does.
--
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/
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