Re: kernel-package or kernel bug???
>>"Brian" == Brian May <bam@debian.org> writes:
>>>>> "Manoj" == Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes:
Manoj> Therein lies your problem. Your kernel needs a newer
Manoj> modutils than you have installed. Look into the kernel
Manoj> source Documentation dir for the versions oif software you
Manoj> need to have installed.
Brian> Not sure I understand:
Brian> 1. is potato not compatible with 2.2.17? or perhaps this is just the
Brian> initial release of potato, and not the updates.
I have no recollection about when the kernel started
installing this symlink; so you could be right here.
Brian> 2. how can a new modutils prevent this symlink from being created?
It won't. And this symlink is not a bug.
Brian> Or are you saying that depmod should just ignore this symlink?
Correct
Brian> If this is the case, it seems pretty silly, as the deb file typically
Brian> is for installation on other computers, where the symlink just will
Brian> become an invalid symlink.
It is installed by the kernel Makefile. And not all packages
are meant to be installed on other computers -- I routinely compile
and install my own kernel image modules, and I have a suspicion that
I am not alone.
manoj
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