Okay, using modprobe is a good idea. I have a new patch to modutils; it
includes modprobe and is attached.
Thanks,
-David
Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 07:47:38PM +0100 wrote:
> Previously David Whedon wrote:
> > We're really strapped for space trying to fit all on a single floppy. We
> > have to carefully consider the 10k that using modprobe will cost us. Is it
> > possible for you to elaborate on why you don't want us to use insmod. We
> > really only need it to insmod a nic module, and after that we can grab
> > anything else that we want off the net (modprobei. for example).
>
> modprobe resolves dependencies, insmod does not. For some network
> modules that is really need: you can't load the wd driver for example
> before you load the 8130 module. modprobe will do that for, insmod does not.
>
> Wichert.
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diff -ur orig/modutils-2.4.1/Makefile.common.in modutils-2.4.1/Makefile.common.in
--- orig/modutils-2.4.1/Makefile.common.in Thu Jan 4 17:45:19 2001
+++ modutils-2.4.1/Makefile.common.in Thu Jan 25 21:10:49 2001
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
AR = @AR@
ARCH = @ARCH@
CC = @CC@
-CFLAGS = @CFLAGS@
+CFLAGS = @CFLAGS@ $(UDEB_CFLAGS)
BUILDCC = @BUILDCC@
BUILDCFLAGS = @BUILDCFLAGS@
INSTALL = @INSTALL_LOCAL@
diff -ur orig/modutils-2.4.1/debian/control modutils-2.4.1/debian/control
--- orig/modutils-2.4.1/debian/control Mon Jan 29 11:30:16 2001
+++ modutils-2.4.1/debian/control Thu Jan 25 23:02:28 2001
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
Section: base
Priority: required
Maintainer: Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
+Build-Depends: dpkg-dev (>= 1.7.0)
Standards-Version: 3.2.0
Bugs: debbugs://bugs.debian.org/
Origin: debian
@@ -15,3 +16,11 @@
These utilities are intended to make a Linux modular kernel
manageable for all users, administrators and distribution
maintainers.
+
+Package: modutils-udeb
+Section: debian-installer
+Architecture: any
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
+Description: Linux module utilities for debian-installer.
+ modutils-udeb is a minimal package used by debian-installer.
+ This package contains only the binary 'insmod'.
diff -ur orig/modutils-2.4.1/debian/rules modutils-2.4.1/debian/rules
--- orig/modutils-2.4.1/debian/rules Mon Jan 29 11:30:16 2001
+++ modutils-2.4.1/debian/rules Sat Jan 27 20:44:09 2001
@@ -4,6 +4,11 @@
package := modutils
docdir := /usr/share/doc/$(package)
tmpdir := $(shell pwd)/debian/tmp/
+udebtmpdir := $(shell pwd)/debian/modutils-udeb/
+version :=$(shell dpkg-parsechangelog | grep ^Version: | cut -d ' ' -f
+2)
+arch :=$(shell dpkg --print-architecture)
+priority :=$(shell grep ^Priority: debian/control | cut -d ' ' -f 2)
+udebfilename :=$(package)-udeb_$(version)_$(arch).udeb
stamp-config:
mkdir -p debian/build
@@ -12,20 +17,31 @@
--mandir='$${prefix}'/share/man
touch stamp-config
+stamp-config-udeb:
+ mkdir -p debian/build-udeb
+ cd debian/build-udeb ; ../../configure --disable-root-check \
+ --disable-combined --enable-combined-modprobe
+ touch stamp-config-udeb
+
stamp-build build: stamp-config
cd debian/build ; $(MAKE)
touch stamp-build
+stamp-build-udeb build-udeb: stamp-config-udeb
+ cd debian/build-udeb ; $(MAKE) UDEB_CFLAGS="-Os -fomit-frame-pointer"
+ touch stamp-build
+
clean:
test -d debian
- rm -rf debian/build debian/tmp
+ rm -rf debian/build debian/tmp debian/build-udeb debian/modutils-udeb
-rm -rf debian/files* debian/substvars
- -rm -f stamp-config stamp-build
+ -rm -f stamp-config stamp-build stamp-config-udeb \
+ stamp-build-udeb debian/files~
binary-indep:
@echo Nothing to do
-binary-arch: checkroot stamp-build
+binary-arch: checkroot stamp-build stamp-build-udeb
test -d debian
-rm -rf debian/tmp
install -d -m 755 -o root -g root debian/tmp
@@ -44,6 +60,21 @@
rm -f $(tmpdir)/usr/share/man/man8/kdstat.8
+# Install udeb binary
+ cd debian/build-udeb ; $(MAKE) exec_prefix=$(udebtmpdir) install
+
+# Remove all the udeb doesn't need
+ rm -rf $(udebtmpdir)/usr/
+ rm -f $(udebtmpdir)/sbin/depmod \
+ $(udebtmpdir)/sbin/genksyms \
+ $(udebtmpdir)/sbin/insmod_ksymoops_clean \
+ $(udebtmpdir)/sbin/kallsyms \
+ $(udebtmpdir)/sbin/kernelversion \
+ $(udebtmpdir)/sbin/ksyms \
+ $(udebtmpdir)/sbin/lsmod \
+ $(udebtmpdir)/sbin/modinfo \
+ $(udebtmpdir)/sbin/rmmod
+
# Do some changes for Debian
-strip debian/tmp/sbin/*
chmod 644 debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/*
@@ -107,15 +138,33 @@
install -p -m 755 -o root -g root debian/prerm debian/tmp/DEBIAN
install -p -m 755 -o root -g root debian/postrm debian/tmp/DEBIAN
+# Install Debian system files for udeb
+ install -d -m 755 -o root -g root $(udebtmpdir)/DEBIAN
+ install -p -m 644 -o root -g root debian/control $(udebtmpdir)/DEBIAN
+
# Some left-over stuff
install -d -m 755 -o root -g root debian/tmp/usr/bin
ln -s /sbin/genksyms debian/tmp/usr/bin/genksyms
+# generate modutils package
dpkg-shlibdeps debian/tmp/sbin/*
- dpkg-gencontrol -isp
+ dpkg-gencontrol -isp -pmodutils
chown -R root.root debian/tmp
chmod -R go=rX debian/tmp
dpkg --build debian/tmp ..
+
+# generate modutils-udeb package
+ dpkg-shlibdeps debian/modutils-udeb/sbin/*
+
+ # dpkg doesn't understand this will be a udeb, prevent it from
+ # writing an incorrent entry to debian/files
+ dpkg-gencontrol -pmodutils-udeb -Pdebian/modutils-udeb -fdebian/files~
+
+ # register the udeb manually
+ dpkg-distaddfile $(udebfilename) \
+ debian-installer $(priority)
+
+ dpkg --build debian/modutils-udeb ../$(udebfilename)
# Below here is fairly generic really
