Re: linux-2.6 install errors due to incompatible depmod files [was Re: Bug#518412: initramfs-tools: must support relative paths in modules.dep ]

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On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 12:05 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:

> On Mar 20, Scott James Remnant <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Doesn't Debian run depmod in the postinst of the kernel package - and
> > iirc, again on boot anyway?
> Not anymore on boot, but I can't see why depmod should NOT being run
> when the kernel is installed.
> 
Me neither.

The only file in /lib/modules/2.x.y-z (other than the modules) we
include in the kernel packages is modules.order.

The rest of the modules.* come by running depmod when the package is
installed; we also update it when any further packages containing
modules for that kernel are installed.

Scott
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