Re: are driver disks broken in FC5?

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> I looked through the source.  The code to copy drivers to
> /lib/modules/`uname -r`/updates/ is in copyExtraModules which is only
> used by doPostInstall in packages.py.  As far as I can tell from
> looking at the source this code is never called.  If you do a
> `grep packages . -R | grep import` you can see which parts of
> packages.py are used and it's not there.
> 
> Of course, if anyone had successfully created a driver disk for FC5
> then I must be doing something wrong.  :)

No, you're not doing anything wrong:

   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=185344

This code was never hooked back up.  We've worked on it a bit, but there
are tons of other problems with trees right now that's making testing
the fix a bit of a challenge.  Feel free to try it out on rawhide or
test 1 when it comes out and see if it works better.

- Chris


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