On Sun, 07 Jan 2007 19:45:17 -0800, sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> hi jacques, i'm surprised no one else has replied to this yet, so > i'll throw in my $0.02 here. > On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 18:12 -0600, Jacques Normand wrote: >> I am not sure what to do about that. The module packages carry a >> md5sum for the map and dep files which are updated by depmod so >> when you run debsums you get a serie of mismatch. This is a problem >> with tools like >> Now, the question is whether it should be a bug against debsums, >> the linux-modules-* or more probably kernel-package. > i'd say it's a bug that should be reported against kernel-package, And I say you are wrong about that. kernel-package takes great care not to include modules.dep amongst the files included in the reported md5sums. > and maybe cloned to the relevant linux-modules packages for the sake > of documenting it. really i don't see any reason why the packages > in question should ship the files at all, if they're going to be > updated as part of the package installation/configuration. There have been problems reported in the past when the module dependencies were not generated at install time, or did not get into the init ram disk correctly -- so they are shipped in a defensive programming measure. Since we do not ship the md5sum of these files, this is not a problem. manoj -- Be sure to evaluate the bird-hand/bush ratio. Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]