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Subject: Re: kmod packaging question
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On 10/14/2013 10:00 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
> I'm having some issues with the 'kmod' package.  In particular,
> the package claims:
>    commit b4bc0a7f1b90a51e26d6ab74d964ff81cfe05904
>    Author: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
>    Date:   Tue Jan 31 00:34:01 2012 -0800
>
>      kmod: Add recipes
>
>      kmod is replacement for module-init-tools
>
>      (From OE-Core rev: 716606f5446534e48b45fcc017e8bbdfe7f15e26)
>
>      Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
>      Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
>
> But is is really a "replacement"?  I know that there is a provides
> which makes the build happy, but unless you explicitly install the
> kmod package into your image, you don't end up with all of the module
> tools.  The main missing piece is 'depmod' - the rest seem to come
> from busybox, not kmod.
>
> I ran into this when trying to run 'opkg upgrade' which sucked in
> some new kernel modules and found that 'depmod' was not installed.
>
> Did I miss something?
>
Nope, it was a good catch, I will investigate the size increase for 
adding depmod into busybox.

Sau!

> n.b. this was tested using Poky/Yocto
> 0fc8317c6385eb1ed69ca4522ee6424c456dbb92
> which is a few days old.  I've not checked the very latest master (yet).
>