On Dec 05, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyway, if you add a depmod call to update-modules then debhelper could
just run it and not worry about needing to run depmod. If OTOH you do
want to eventually remove update-modules from module-init-tools then
we will have to live with debhelper
Marco d'Itri wrote:
update-modules needs to be called only when /etc/modutils/ is modified,
so dh_installmodules should not add code to call it in other situations
(specifically when /etc/modprobe.d/ is modified or when new modules are
installed).
dh_installmodules generates code to run
On Dec 05, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
dh_installmodules generates code to run update-modules in the postinst
and postrm, which are run when modules are installed or removed. Amoung
other things, the depmod call in update-modules.modutils makes the newly
installed modules in the
Marco d'Itri wrote:
Right, I did not remember that update-modules also runs depmod.
This is interesting, because if modutils is not installed then depmod
will not be run by the update-modules script of module-init-tools.
Nobody ever reported this, so I wonder if the packages which install 2.6
Package: debhelper
Version: 5.0.7
Severity: normal
update-modules needs to be called only when /etc/modutils/ is modified,
so dh_installmodules should not add code to call it in other situations
(specifically when /etc/modprobe.d/ is modified or when new modules are
installed).
--
ciao,
Marco
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