Re: [PATCH] modutils 2.3.20 and beyond

Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-27T02:20:10Z

On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 04:16:26PM -0800, David Ford wrote:
> "Jeff V. Merkey" wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 06:02:35PM -0500, Mohammad A. Haque wrote:
> > > I'd rather have Anaconda changed rather than special casing standard
> > > utils to account for distro handling.
> >
> > Great. Then tell RedHat to rewrite it without the need for these switches.
> > They will say NO. It's a trivial change, and would save me a lot of hours
> > rewriting scripts. I did it once, but if RedHat has standardized on this
> > set of switches, why not add them as alias commands? It's a trivial
> > patch.
>
> Then let RedHat maintain their version of modutils. RedHat isn't the
> standard, nor should RedHat dictate to authors, nor should other distributions
> and persons be affected by RedHat's methods.
>
> If you don't like it, replace your depmod with a script that strips that flag
> before calling the original depmod.

Anaconda is open sourced, so it's not technically tied to any one
distributor any more....

Jeff

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