If I understand correctly, the package module-init-tools is for 2.6 kernels, and the modutils components for 2.4 kernels (rmmod, lsmod, insmod) are being renamed with a .modutils extension in debian unstable. I am running debian unstable, and just had trouble installing a commercial package (oss from opensound.com) because apparently other distributions (suse, redhat, slackware, mandrake) are renaming their 2.4 modutils components with .old. I had to redo all the links from my commercial package so they pointed to the files in /sbin with the .modutils extension. I'm certainly not saying debian has to do everything the way everybody else does it, but I'm wondering what the reason is for doing it differently. I would imagine this could also create some problems installing non-commercial packages that aren't debian packages. Thanks.
Actually, the way I understand it, the application should simply call rmmod, lsmod, modprobe, etc. The application should not check and try to call a specific version of the tool. What should happen is that if you are running a 2.4 kernel and you have the new module-init-tools installed, it will realize that you are running a 2.4 kernel and pass the call to the old version of the program.
I have VMWare installed on my machine and I have both modutils and module-init-tools and everthing works like should.
-Roberto
pgp00000.pgp
Description: PGP signature
