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Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: virtual/modutils and module-init-tools
From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan () cox ! net>
Date: 2012-02-25 22:51:39
Message-ID: pan.2012.02.25.22.51.39 () cox ! net
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Walter Dnes posted on Sat, 25 Feb 2012 15:04:22 -0500 as excerpted:
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 08:28:23AM +0000, Duncan wrote
>
>> That leaves those using a dev-manager other than udev in a current
>> installation who are depending on the current system set listing to
>> bring in module-init-tools. I believe busybox has it's own modutils as
>> well, doesn't it, so that eliminates them.
>
> Would this require tweaking the virtual/dev-manager ebuild? Taking a
> quick glance at http://busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html it does have
> lsmod/modprobe/rmmod, but not modinfo. Are there any ebuilds or init
> scripts that use modprobe or rmmod? If so, the ebuild should at least
> have an ewarn message telling mdev users to create the necessary
> symlinks to modprobe/rmmod. Maybe even attempt to create the symlinks
> if they don't already exist.
FWIW I don't have busybox installed either (negating @system entry in
/etc/portage/profiles/packages, I use either init=/bin/bash on the kernel
command line, or a second copy of the rootfs taken when the system was
generally stable, as my emergency boot solution, no busybox necessary),
so I'm not familiar with it at all.
But as I stated I've had module-init-tools in package.provided for quite
some time, no noticed ill effects. The only deps I see on it presently
are sys-apps/rescan-scsi-bus (itself a dep of k3b, cd/dvd-burning app,
this will obviously be replaced with a virtual/modutils dep) and
virtual/modutils itself. I don't see any deps on virtual/modutils
presently. But of course I don't have all apps installed, either.
--
Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs.
"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
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