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Re: 2.4 & 2.6 kernels, should sarge be 2.6 only at least for powerpc ?



On 2004-07-01 02:35:19 +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> No bug, from /usr/share/doc/module-init-tools/changelog.Debian.gz:
> 
> module-init-tools (3.1-pre2-1) unstable; urgency=medium
> 
>   * New upstream release. (Closes: #254204)
>   * Now /etc/modprobe.d/ is processed by modprobe. This means that
>     /etc/modprobe.conf and /lib/modules/modprobe.conf are not needed
>     anymore and update-modules is now a no-op. Executable scripts in
>     /etc/modprobe.d/ are not supported anymore.
>     /etc/modprobe.conf will be removed or moved to /etc/modprobe.d/.
> ...

This is a bit stupid. I don't understand why /etc/modprobe.conf has
been moved to /etc/modprobe.d/ as it is still used (though not needed).
I assume that it should be moved to its original place, right?

> apt-listchanges is very useful for things like this.

I use it, but don't read all the changelog (often much text to read
and generally not very interesting).

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