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From: Jerome Vizcaino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 00:22:53 +0100 To: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Bug#301424: debhelper: dh_installmodules is unusable when running kernel version is not the target kernel version User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 On Friday 25 March 2005 23:18, you wrote: > Jerome Vizcaino wrote: > > dh_installmodules is used to create postinst and postrm scripts for > > debianized kernel modules. The problem is the following : > > I'm running kernel 2.6.x and I'm building a bundle of two debian > > packages (kernel-image-2.6.y and foobar-module for 2.6.y) > > Install of both packages goes well but when I try to load the foobar > > module after booting my new 2.6.y kernel, foobar is not known. The > > problem comes from the update-modules script : update-modules only > > updates the running kernel's modules.dep. In my case, 2.6.x modules.dep > > got updated when installing the foobar-module package for 2.6.y. Looking > > at the alsa-source, I found that they didn't use dh_installmodules at all > > and wrote their own postinst and postrm template scripts to call depmod > > -a using the associated System.map file (in my case System.map-2.6.y) and > > specifying explicitly the kernel version (2.6.y). > > depmod command looks like this : > > depmod -A -F /boot/System.map-2.6.y 2.6.y > > > > By the way, I've only been testing with 2.6 kernels but I think the > > problem is the same with the 2.4 series. > > > > Could you change how dh_installmodules behaves and generate postinst and > > postrm scripts that takes this problem into account ? > If know about that. Launching /etc/init.d/modtils and /etc/init.d/module-init-tools by hand doesn't solve the problem (even when booting the new kernel). It looks like the depmod --quick doesn't check for new modules. Btw, /lib/modules-2.6.y is not read-only. > Both module-init-tools and modutils have init scripts that run during > boot and run depmod -a. The only way I can see that not working would be > if /lib/modules were not writable. Jerome ----- End forwarded message ----- -- see shy jo
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