modutils and modulr-init-tools fix

Jasper Huijsmans jasper at lunar-linux.org
Thu Sep 30 09:52:14 UTC 2004


On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 11:06:05AM +0200, nestu wrote:
> 	Hello everyone,
> 
> 	I have attached a first proposal for these two buggers. 
> Basically what happens is that each module is placed in its 
> own dir, and then the initscript on boot creates symlinks to 
> the appropiate binary [ or man, you'll see ] depending on 
> which kernel you booted with. These symlinks are created 
> only for the overlapping installs.
> 	

Yeah, this sounds like a reasonable solution. Would it be possible to install
them as <prog>-2.4 and <prog>-2.6 instead of separate directories?

> 	A second proposal is to commit it to kernel/ instead of 
> utils/, where it currently is.
> 	

Agreed, that is a better location.

> 	A third proposal is to create a modsymlinks module, and set 
> a DEPENDS on it from m-i-t and modutils, but to be true I 
> don't like much this idea, yet I don't like the attached too 
> much either. *sigh*
> 

Please, no.

	Jasper


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