Re: [PATCH] modutils 2.3.20 and beyond

Alan Cox
2000-11-27T02:41:54Z

> > 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.
>
> It's still a bad precedent. Anaconda should have been written correctly in
> the first place.

I don't know if its an Anaconda issue or a limitation in the tools. Keith is
the modutils maintainer and its up to the Anaconda hackers to prove to him that
he has a problem so I think he is absolutely right in refusing to change it
until that is proven