On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 07:30:43PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: > > >But someone claimed there are critical problems with System.map in the way > >my package is upgraded, which is not the case. > > If I get a new linux package after doing apt-get ugprade which replaces > the one for my running kernel, then System.map and the kernel are going > to be out of sync until I reboot. Which would be bad.
How bad? I'm happily running the Linux kernel without System.map right now. Anyway, discussing this is not useful anymore. I just said I'll provide it in the package. -- Robert Millan "[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work." -- J.R.R.T, Ainulindale (Silmarillion)