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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
Cc: Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud@mandrakesoft.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	kaos@ocs.com.au, Petr Vandrovec <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Modules in 2.5.47-bk...
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 16:08:17 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DD6B3C1.70900@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021114042738.2091E2C080@lists.samba.org>

Adrian Bunk wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 04:45:16PM +0100, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
>
> >Rusty Russell  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.
>
>
> The alternative system doesn't work in this case because it doesn't help
> you when you want to switch between 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. You need some
> kind of wrapper.



Agreed.  The alternatives stuff I am familiar with does not changes 
symlinks based on the version of booted kernel, AFAIK.

	Jeff




  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-11-16 21:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-13 18:36 Modules in 2.5.47-bk Petr Vandrovec
2002-11-13 21:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-14  3:53   ` Rusty Russell
2002-11-14  4:06     ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-14  5:22       ` Rusty Russell
2002-11-14 15:45         ` Thierry Vignaud
2002-11-16 13:50           ` Adrian Bunk
2002-11-16 21:08         ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2002-11-14 10:50     ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-11-14 17:53       ` Rusty Russell

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