Proposal to better support custom kernel modules

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Thu Oct 23 15:06:41 UTC 2003


On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 10:54, Sean Millichamp wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 10:35, 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.

> That's great news!  Thank you for your prompt reply.  I assume that this
> is a recent addition with Fedora Core Test and isn't supported in RHL
> 7.3 through 9?

Yep, it's new for Fedora Core 1 (also in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, for
whatever it's worth)

Jeremy





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