Hi Micah

On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 08:54:46AM -0600, Micah Anderson wrote:
> 
> Ola,
> 
> The modutils package has been removed from sid and lenny as it is a
> package that supports 2.4 kernels, which are no longer a part of any
> Debian release (including Etch). 

Ahh I see. I thought it was for 2.6 as well.

> Modutils functionality is now provided by module-init-tools, however I
> am not sure why it is needed for util-vserver, do you?

I have searched some and it seems to be the configure script that need
to find modprobe command. I do not really know why, but maybe it
write the path somewhere. I do not know.

> Additionally, the dependency is: modutils|module-init-tools so I am not
> sure why the build failed.

That is quite strange, yes. Maybe the build script is broken?

Regards,

// Ola

> Micah
> 
> * Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070709 12:55]:
> > Package: util-vserver
> > Version: 0.30.213-1+b1
> > Severity: serious
> > 
> > There was an error while trying to autobuild your package:
> > 
> > > Automatic build of util-vserver_0.30.213-1+b1 on lxdebian.bfinv.de by 
> > > sbuild/s390 98
> > [...]
> > > E: Package modutils has no installation candidate
> > > Package modutils is not available, but is referred to by another package.
> > > This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
> > > is only available from another source
> > > apt-get failed.
> > > Package installation failed
> > 
> > 
> 

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