Proposal to better support custom kernel modules

Ville Skyttä ville.skytta at iki.fi
Sat Oct 25 15:28:58 UTC 2003


On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 17:35, Jeremy Katz wrote:

> /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/updates will get searched now by modutils (and
> mkinitrd) when looking for a module.  Also, if you're packaging, if you
> have your package "Provides: kernel-modules", then it will get install
> instead of upgrade behavior by default from up2date.

Ah, neat.

Regarding the provides, it's "kernel-modules", not "kernel-module",
right?

Some kernel module packages at fedora.us and probably elsewhere provide
"kernel-module", based on some discussions earlier this year.  No
problem changing that but it would would like to be sure about the exact
provides and some insurance that it won't change tomorrow :)

Also, some discussion about implementing module packages which need
modifications in modules.conf is at
https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=503 in case someone's
interested.





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