On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 03:12:25PM +0200, Sabino Maggi wrote: > 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.
No, the package is broken. I am going to have it fixed soon, and post a URL for it here. Thanks, Ben -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
