On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 09:57:31AM -0600, dann frazier wrote: > On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 02:52:35PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > If you uninstall the modules for your running version of Linux, your system > > is > > broken untill you reboot. > > I disagree - my system is running just fine. All the modules I need > are loaded already. Why should I have to reboot just to clear up some > disk space? And, what if my kernel was built w/o modules - say I > netboot static images from a tftp server? > [...] > Oh, and what about the case of installing this package in a chroot? > The modules for the running kernel are unlikely to be found there.
Note that static images don't suffer from this problem since only Linux instances with "snd" module will trigger the modprobe line in postinst (which makes me think that builtin "snd" and modular "snd_*_oss" isn't going to work, but I'm not really concerned about that). Anyway, you made good points here. Do you have any suggestions as to how to do this? I'd rather not check for existance of the modules themselves because that requires assumptions on the module paths, and "||true"-ing them seems a bit uncautious. -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
