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Re: udev issue



On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 00:54:29 +0100, Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> said: 

> On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 11:29:07PM +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
>> On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 the mental interface of Sven Luther told:
>> 
>> [...]
>> > If you have time to investigate this, it would be really
>> > appreciated.
>> Maybe the attached patch against kernel-package-9.008.4 solves the
>> problem?

> Mmm, not sure, did you try it ?

> Manoj, or someone else from the kernel team, what do you think about
> this ? i thought the - in the line only meant errors are ignored or
> something, and furthermore this seems to be in the rules file, not
> the postnst.

        No, the attached patch is spurious. The leading hyphen merely
 instructs make to ignore errors --  and depmod is not required to
 succeed at install time, since depmod is run again anyway at boot
 time.

        What is the underlying problem we are trying to solve?

        manoj
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