Yesterday I have updated modutils from 2.3.9-3.1 to 2.3.11-1 (in potato), using dselect and the automatic upgrade selections.
Today, I have noticed that /sbin/modprobe and all the other executables contained in the modutils package for slink (e.g., lsmod, insmod, modinfo) have disappeared from my system. Only the 4 executables contained in modutils_2.3.11-1.deb (genksyms, depmod, kerneld, update-modules) remain. This is obviously a big trouble. -- Is this a bug in modutils_2.3.11-1, or might have I done something wrong? -- I want to understand the upgrade mechanism. When one does a package update and the updated package does not contain some files which were previously present in the older package (as in this case), are these files first removed and then the newer files substituted to the older? I think so, otherwise all the file dependencies would break, I just want to be sure. Cheers Sabino ----------------------------------------------------------------- "There are two things that are infinite: Human stupidity and the universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sabino Maggi ! tel: (+39) 011-3919-436 IEN "G. Ferraris" ! fax: (+39) 011-3463-84 Strada delle Cacce, 91 ! e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I-10135 Torino, Italy ! -----------------------------------------------------------------
