reopen 555317 retitle 555317 "README.Debian misses info about usage with vservers" thanks
On Montag, 9. November 2009, Julien Valroff wrote:
> Actually, that part was removed as a patch was applied to fix #471808[1]
> You are referring to a changelog which was written more than 2 years
> ago.
well, point is, README.Debian says nothing how to disable those checks if
running on a vserver (or other virtualisation, where the kernel has module
support but one doesnt want/can check modules)
> > Adding "linux_specific_checks" to DISABLE_TESTS is the right thing to do,
> > right?
Actually, on stable one has to add "os_specific", dunno if this is still true
for unstable.
> But be careful, as advised in the previous bug report, it could be
> changed in the future to add more tests, unrelated to modules.
I'd hope this would be mentioned in NEWS.Debian ;)
> I close this bug as it is not actually a bug.
I've reopened it, as missing documentation is a bug.
regards,
Holger
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