[pkg-fso-maint] Running depmod after installing the kernel
Nikita V. Youshchenko
yoush at debian.org
Thu Jun 25 07:46:11 UTC 2009
> FYI, I just noticed on my NSLU2 that depmod is run in the kernel’s
> postinst, not during the build:
>
> Richte linux-image-2.6.26-2-ixp4xx ein (2.6.26-15lenny3) ...
> Running depmod.
> Finding valid ramdisk creators.
> Using mkinitramfs-kpkg to build the ramdisk.
> Running postinst hook script flash-kernel.
Since module dependency file should be modified when packages providing
kernel modules are installed, that file can't be statically installed with
the kernel package.
That's why depmod runs in postinst, both of kernel and of module-providing
packages.
Nikita
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