Package: libopenipmi0 Version: 2.0.7-1 Severity: normal After openipmi/libopenipmi0 is installed, kernel drivers aren't functional. The example programs don't run. Apparently, kernel modules need to be modprobed to get IPMI working, at this point.
In the upstream source, I see two files, ipmi.init and ipmi.sysconf that seem to be intended to perform this sort of functionality. The Red Hat OpenIPMI.spec file makes use of these, so I assume that IPMI is functional on that distribution after being installed. I don't see anything in the debian subdirectory that does anything similar. At a minimum, I'd expect a README.Debian which explains the steps that still need to happen to get IPMI working, after it's been installed. However, unless it is inadvisable, I'd rather see some sort of init script in /etc/init.d that gets IPMI working. I'm assuming, here, that the user wouldn't have installed IPMI unless they expected to use it. If there are hardware choices or if the user needs to be able to enable/disable it, an /etc/openipmi/openipmi.conf file could be used. This has impact on the Debian OpenHPI package that I maintain. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
