On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 08:33:22PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > reassign 110845 apt > thanks [...] > >>"Zygo" == Zygo Blaxell <zblaxell@feedme.hungrycats.org> writes: > > Zygo> The problem with this message (and the prompt that follows) is that > Zygo> apt actually creates the offending directory when it installs the cipe > Zygo> package. > > Hmm. This is strange. Now, the modules depend on the kernel > image, so we are assured that they shall be configured in dependency > order -- hence kernel-package shall be configured before the modules > are. Now, had they been unpacked in dependency order as well, the > preinst would have worked fine. I think this should be sent over to > the apt folks. That's what I thought. Unless cipe doesn't depend on the kernel... oh, actually... Package: cipe-2.4.9-ac4-zb-p3-laptop Status: install ok installed [...] Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.3-7), cipe-common (= 1.5.2free-4) [...] If it's a bug at all, maybe it's a bug in cipe-source... > Zygo> I'm not entirely sure which this bug should be filed against--apt, > Zygo> kernel-package, or all stand-alone modules packages (which I suppose > Zygo> means debian-policy). > > I don't think this is a policy issue. It is a package > implementation/dependency deal. Maybe a gentle reminder in debian-policy that modules depend on a kernel? ;-) > Zygo> A nice workaround would be a configuration option somewhere > Zygo> that tells the preinst script "Actually, I know what I'm doing, > Zygo> and you can go ahead and clobber my modules directory anyway", > Zygo> and continues without the prompt. > > Way ahead of you. man kenel-img.conf > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > clobber_modules > If set, the preinst shall silently try to move > /lib/modules/version out of the way if it is the > same version as the image being installed. Use at > your own risk. This variable is unset by default. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Uhhh...but I don't want to move modules/version out of the way...it has modules in it that will be used with the newly installed kernel! > This not a kernel-package deficiency, and thus the only issue > left is unpack ordering. > > manoj > -- > Who will master this world and the world of Death with its devas? Who > will gather well taught aphorisms (dhammapadas), like an connoisseur > picking a flower? 44 > Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/> > 1024R/C7261095 print CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E > 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C
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