Re: Sysvinit and System.map (Was: dangling symlink System.map)
Guy Maor writes:
> Yann Dirson <dwitch@bylbo.debian.novare.net> writes:
>
> > Don't know either. But it's been some time I wonder why this link
> > isn't updated on boot to point to "boot/System.map-`uname -r`", or
> > suppress the link and issue a warning if the latter is absent. This
> > would ensure correctness, I think.
>
> That's not necesary as all the necessary programs will look for
> System.map-version also.
Then this link is useless... some base package should get rid of it,
and we should make sure it never comes to the surface again ?
BTW, psupdate is the only program I can think about using
System.map. Are there any other ?
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Yann Dirson
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