Proposal to better support custom kernel modules

[Jeremy Katz]

On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 08:53, Sean Millichamp wrote:
> Short summary: There should be a standard path supported by the
> distribution where RPM packages can install custom/updated kernel
> modules and know that the modutils will search there first before
> searching the path containing the distribution supplied modules in the
> kernel-* packages.

/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.

Cheers,

Jeremy