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

[Travis Willard]

On Nov 23, 2007 6:36 AM, Jürgen Hötzel <juergen at hoetzel.info> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 12:25:04PM +0100, Tobias Powalowski wrote:
> > 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


>From the man page:
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SYNOPSIS
      depmod [-b basedir]  [-e]  [-F System.map]  [-n]  [-v]
[version]  [-A     ]

      depmod [-e]  [-FSystem.map]  [-n]  [-v]  [version]  [filename ...]
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Man that's confusing argument placement.  Notice how [-v] [version]
are two separate arguments, not [-v version].  This implies that [-v]
has nothing to do with [version], and that Jurgen is right.