As a lot of you have experienced, the changes I made in modutils 2.3.5-1 managed to break a fair number of machines. I have just uploaded 2.3.6-3 to fix this. Let me explain what happened: In /etc/modutils/paths there were a lot of path-statements to set the default paths where depmod,insmod and modprobe would search for modules. However with modutils 2.3.5 all those paths were also builtin-defaults, so those statements were no longer needed. So I removed those since having them in multiple places didn't seem needed. Now comes the problem: if a `path'-statement is used in modules.conf, all the default-paths will be ignored. A couple of packages added those paths, for example ALSA. This meant that anyone who used such a package would end up with a broken system.. unluckily this sneaked past my own tests since I no longer use ALSA on my systems at home. I have fixed this by adding a file /etc/modutils/0keep, which contains a `keep'-statement. This prevens the default paths from being ignored and fixed the just mentioned problems. I apologize for the problems this may have caused, and hope this upload will fix all of them. At least it works for me(TM).. Wichert. -- ________________________________________________________________ / Generally uninteresting signature - ignore at your convenience \ | wichert@liacs.nl http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D |
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