[arch-dev-public] [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.27.9-1

[Tobias Powalowski]

Am Dienstag 16 Dezember 2008 schrieb Jan de Groot:
> On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 14:42 -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 2:41 PM, RedShift <redshift at pandora.be> wrote:
> > > Why not solve it the right way, by creating a correct package?
> >
> > I think you're missing why this is impossible. Anyone that has m-i-t
> > 3.5 on their system now has the .bin files that are owned by no
> > package. pacman correctly does not overwrite these files.
> >
> > What "correct package" are you suggesting?
>
> As these files are generated by module-init-tools whenever it is run for
> your kernel, why not solve this using post_* functions?
> Whenever the kernel gets installed/upgraded, depmod is run from
> post_install/upgrade. Whenever the kernel is removed, the files created
> by depmod for this kernel get removed from post_remove. Shouldn't be
> hard to do, the result is the same and no file conflicts will exist.
Well depmod is already called in .install file.
Why to make a remove in PKGBUILD and create untraced files on the system?
This bug affects only people who run testing and installed new external 
modules. This should be not a big part of the community, mostly noone runs 
testing ;)

> BTW: Please remove the -v flag from depmod in kernel26.install, it's
> stupid to make depmod print verbose messages while redirecting output
> to /dev/null.
fixed

Before releasing .10 kernel I would like to have a clear answer on how to 
handle this.
My suggestion would be the --force option, the other thing is a workaround 
which is imho not needed here.

greetings
tpowa
-- 
Tobias Powalowski
Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa)
http://www.archlinux.org
tpowa at archlinux.org
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