Bug#70588: libdetect/modconf

[Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.infodrom.north.de>]

Stelian Pop wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 01:21:05AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > thanks for providing a patch, but... it won't work out of the box because
> > modconf is part of the boot floppies.  This needs further investigation.
> >
> 
> IIRC, the boot floppies use modconf. When building new boot floppies
> using the modified modconf and the (slighty) modified boot-floppies
> package (see the patch I submitted as bug #70639), everything works
> fine for me (at least it worked at the time I submitted the patches,
> didn't try since then)...

boot-floppies use stripped down glibc and does not have enough
place for libdetect and libisapnp.so.  Without them, autodetect
won't work.

Regards,

	Joey

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