Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (715 mails)

[Frederic Crozat <fcrozat@xxxxxxxx>]

Le vendredi 02 mars 2012 à 15:18 -0300, Cristian Rodríguez a écrit :
> Hi:
>
> There are hardcoded requires on package module-init-tools
>
> Problem: kmod-compat-5-1.2.x86_64 conflicts with module-init-tools 
> provided by module-init-tools-3.15-1.2.x86_64
>   Solution 1: Following actions will be done:
>    deinstallation of module-init-tools-3.15-1.2.x86_64
>    deinstallation of pm-utils-1.4.1-16.1.x86_64
>    deinstallation of mpt-firmware-1.0-249.2.noarch
>    deinstallation of kernel-desktop-3.3.rc5-2.1.x86_64
>    deinstallation of ipw-firmware-9-11.3.noarch
>    deinstallation of mkinitrd-2.7.0-52.1.x86_64
>    deinstallation of pm-utils-ndiswrapper-1.4.1-16.1.x86_64
>    deinstallation of bootsplash-branding-openSUSE-12.2-4.18.noarch
>    deinstallation of bootsplash-3.3-176.4.x86_64
>    deinstallation of cifs-utils-5.3-2.1.x86_64
>    deinstallation of splashy-0.3.13-32.1.x86_64
>    deinstallation of suspend-1.0-13.2.x86_64
>    deinstallation of splashy-branding-openSUSE-0.3.13-32.1.x86_64
>    deinstallation of ksplashx-branding-openSUSE-12.2-4.18.noarch
>    deinstallation of kdebase4-workspace-branding-openSUSE-12.2-3.4.x86_64
>   Solution 2: do not install kmod-compat-5-1.2.x86_64
>
>
> This of course prevents using kmod-compat as a permanent replacement of 
> module-init-tools , also kmod-compat does not include
>
> /etc/depmod.d
> /etc/depmod.d/00-system.conf
> /etc/modprobe.d
> /etc/modprobe.d/00-system.conf
> /etc/modprobe.d/10-unsupported-modules.conf
> /etc/modprobe.d/99-local.conf
> /usr/lib/module-init-tools
> /usr/lib/module-init-tools/driver-check.sh
> /usr/lib/module-init-tools/weak-modules
> /usr/lib/module-init-tools/weak-modules2
>
> which will likely break something else, additionally it does not handle 
> suse addition "unsupported modules" which IMHO has no pĺace whatsoever 
> here anyway.If there is such thing as unsupported module in openSUSE, it 
> should warn laud at load time in the kernel message log about this fact 
> or simple be excluded from the distribution completely.

Well, the "unsupported modules" patch in module-init-tools needs to be
ported to kmod, if we want to replace module-init-tools with kmod.

-- 
Frederic Crozat <fcrozat@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE

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