[arch-dev-public] fixing the dependency cycle in Core, part?1: coreutils

Jürgen Hötzel juergen at hoetzel.info
Fri Nov 23 06:36:51 EST 2007


On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 12:25:04PM +0100, Tobias Powalowski wrote:
> Am Freitag, 23. November 2007 schrieb Jürgen Hötzel:
> > btw, whats the purpose of using depmod in verbose mode and redirecting
> > all output to /dev/null?
> >
> >
> >  # arg 1:  the new package version
> > @@ -12,13 +11,6 @@ post_upgrade()
> >  {
> >    KERNEL_VERSION='2.6.23-ARCH'
> >    depmod -v $KERNEL_VERSION > /dev/null 2>&1
> >           ^^^		     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> > Jürgen
> >
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> that is not verbose mode it's giving depmod the version of the kernel

verbose isn't explained in the manpage [-v] is the verbose option:

depmod $KERNEL_VERSION 

works. 

Jürgen




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