Re: [PATCH] modutils 2.3.20 and beyond

Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-26T23:19:17Z

On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 10:46:35PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > + {"ignore-versions", 0, 0, 'i'},
>
> I dont think we should encourage anyone to ignore symbol versions

Anaconda will barf and require over 850+ changes to the scripts without
it. If you look at the patch, you will note that it's a silent switch
that's only there to avoid a noisy error message from depmod. It
actually does nothing other than set a flag that also does nothing.
-m simply maps to -F.

:-)

Jeff