On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 00:26, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > --- Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi�: > > It seems that modutils and module-init-tools are duplicating most of the > > work. > > Both of them do some check as of the kernel's ability to load modules, > > module-init-tools also checks for /proc/modules. > > Then both run depmod, modutils does a bit more work at it. > > Next both of them load all the modules in /etc/modules and check about > > modules in /boot. > > Is this redundant work on purpose, or is it a bug, since there is no > > problem installing both packages together, which causes a bunch of > > module already in the kernel errors on startup. > > > > modultils -- kernel < 2.5.48 > module-init-tools -- kernel >= 2.5.48 > > Of course, module if module-init-tools finds an earlier kernel, it passes the > work on to the old version. >
They are still almost the same, except for the check whether to run depmod in module-init-tools. Why do we need two of them? > -Roberto > > ___________________________________________________ > Yahoo! Messenger - Nueva versi�n GRATIS > Super Webcam, voz, caritas animadas, y m�s... > http://messenger.yahoo.es > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
