Re: Modules in 2.5.47-bk...

Thierry Vignaud
2002-11-14T15:37:31Z

Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> writes:

> > The backward compat thing is really a hack, and not system
> > software done right :( modutils should not need to rename all its
> > binaries *.old -- and have that be the default that users see when
> > installing the rpm. No company worth its shareholders would
> > release a package full of "*.old" binaries. Come on...
>
> OK, would calling it "*-2.4" or something help?

most distros come with some alternative system (at lest, debian, mdk &
rh), so this problem can legally be left to vendors.