Re: [Devil-linux-develop] hostap install abort (mproper, new lfssystem) [PATCH]

[Roland P. <pa...@ta...>]

On Sunday 27 June 2004 17:02, Heiko Zuerker wrote:
> Roland Pabel wrote:
> > On Saturday 26 June 2004 21:59, Heiko Zuerker wrote:
> >>Roland Pabel wrote:
> >>>On Saturday 26 June 2004 15:47, Heiko Zuerker wrote:
> >>>>Roland Pabel wrote:
> >>>>>On Saturday 26 June 2004 12:31, Roland Pabel wrote:
> >>>>>>On Saturday 26 June 2004 10:13, Roland Pabel wrote:
> >>>>>>>On Friday 25 June 2004 15:19, Bruce Smith wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >>That's not good...
> >>Can you create a modules.dep with the module-init-tools depmod and check
> >>if it works ?
> >>If yes, then we have to add some checks about the running kernel.
> >
> > Looks like it's all right after all. I forgot that "depmod -an" dumps
> > all /lib/modules/<>/modules.* files in one file. Concatenated all those
> > files are exactly the same size as the dumped version.
> > The missing option for depmod to work is "-F $CDDIR/boot/System.map". I
> > copied that map file to /boot/ which doesn't make depmod happy ...
> > maybe we should replace the lfssystem's depmod by a script which calls
> > the freshly compiled depmod with the correct options ? or disable it by
> > copying /bin/true over it...
>
> We need a working depmod in the system, so let's move it to be compiled
> earlier in the build process and install it into the lfssystem.
you need more than that, you need to transparently have depmod called like 
this:
depmod <whatever> => depmod $@ -F $CDDIR/boot/System.map $KERNELVERSION
and handle -F arguments and kernel version if given

> Are you going to create a patch?
can do, but won't be before tuesday
Roland
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