On Friday 20 March 2009, Michal Marek wrote: > Frans Pop napsal(a): > > The use case here, which I suspect is not all that uncommon, is that > > I built a kernel from upstream source on a (Debian unstable) system > > with the new version of depmod and then installed that kernel on a > > (Debian stable) system that has an older version of modprobe [1]. > > Backward vs. forward compatibility discussion aside, there is a reason > why most (all?) distro kernel packages run depmod at *install time* on > the target machine. There might be modules installed by other packages, > the format might change, newer depmod has a configuration file and > finally the files are not exactly small and can be recreated rather > easily. It might be a good idea to do the same when compiling kernels > manually and copying them around.
After some more reflection I've come to agree with this. Cheers, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
