On Thu, Jun 11, 1998 at 01:49:36AM -0400, Gregory S. Stark wrote: > Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > This sounds excellent. On one machine I am running 2.0.33 > > and have the appropriate ntfs package installed, but it will not insert > > (many missing symbols), presumably because it is my own compilation > > of 2.0.33. Similarly I just upgraded another box to 2.0.34 and have > > installed ftape-3.04d from sources. It is presently much easier to work > > with sources to such kernel addons, imho. > > I disagree. You're about to follow the same path that was followed for > kernel-source which has various awkward problems. Forcing .deb files into > handling source packages is a bad idea. Instead we should add an option to > dselect/apt to download and unpack the real source package in /usr/src.
Well, I don't really mind the details. I just want modules installed in source form. > If we compiled the standard kernel with CONFIG_MODVERSIONS then we can safely > install modules in /lib/modules or /lib/modules/2.0 instead of for a specific > version. This doesn't really handle conflicts between different incompatible > versions of a 2.0 kernel, but for modules like alsa would probably work fine. > Otherwise the user can download the source package and recompile. Well, this sounds find, but I've never observed this to actually work. [5:30pm] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# dpkg -s ntfs2.0.33 Package: ntfs2.0.33 Status: install ok installed [5:30pm] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# modprobe ntfs /lib/modules/2.0/fs/ntfs.o: unresolved symbol generic_file_mmap_R57ec6036 /lib/modules/2.0/fs/ntfs.o: unresolved symbol __wait_on_buffer_Rc98cf5d5 /lib/modules/2.0/fs/ntfs.o: unresolved symbol bread_Rb6301add /lib/modules/2.0/fs/ntfs.o: unresolved symbol dcache_add_Rd60169b3 /lib/modules/2.0/fs/ntfs.o: unresolved symbol __iget_R917242df /lib/modules/2.0/fs/ntfs.o: unresolved symbol unregister_filesystem_R76cc4714 /lib/modules/2.0/fs/ntfs.o: unresolved symbol __brelse_Rab34997d /lib/modules/2.0/fs/ntfs.o: unresolved symbol wake_up_R2cd4af7c /lib/modules/2.0/fs/ntfs.o: unresolved symbol refile_buffer_R52427ee9 /lib/modules/2.0/fs/ntfs.o: unresolved symbol register_filesystem_Rf8be2e1e /lib/modules/2.0/fs/ntfs.o: unresolved symbol clear_inode_R352fa1d9 /lib/modules/2.0/fs/ntfs.o: unresolved symbol unlock_buffer_R2f24038f /lib/modules/2.0/fs/ntfs.o: unresolved symbol set_writetime_Rd60ca02b /lib/modules/2.0/fs/ntfs.o: unresolved symbol dcache_lookup_Ra14549bd /lib/modules/2.0/fs/ntfs.o: unresolved symbol iput_R3bd220be /lib/modules/2.0/fs/ntfs.o: unresolved symbol __wait_on_super_R650e2a59 I am using a custom kernel, with modversions enabled. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
