Re: not running depmod at boot time

[Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>]

Hello Goswin,

Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
> Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> writes:
>
>> Le mardi 23 mai 2006 à 20:52 +0200, Marco d'Itri a écrit :
>>> So, does anybody mind if I remove depmod from the module-init-tools init
>>> script?
>>
>> Please go ahead. Anything relying on it is buggy anyway.
>> -- 
>>  .''`.           Josselin Mouette        /\./\
>> : :' :           josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org
>> `. `'                        joss@debian.org
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>
> How about having module-init-tools run depmod when needed and have all
> other packages rely on that? That way it would run at most once.

But not at boot time. Think of readonly-root systems. depmode can't
modify the files in /lib/modules/

Regards, Jörg.
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