[Yaird-devel] yaird: Refuses to install sd_mod

[Dick Middleton]

I logged this as Debian bug 444253 but it's been forwarded to this list and is 
now in a moderator approval wait list :-(  So here it is again.

Package: yaird
Version: 0.0.12-22
Severity: important


Change of hardware (from a working system) requires a different stack
for SATA drives.  Now requires sd_mod but sd_mod is not a dependency
libata.  However if sd_mod is specified as a MODULE in Default.cfg it
still refuses to include the module.  The implication is that yaird
'thinks' that sd_mod is built-in to kernel which it isn't.

It's very difficult to workaround this problem; it requires the module
to be loaded with a FILE directive and manual intervention to do an
insmod at every boot!

This is a problem not only for stock Debian kernel 2.6.22-2-amd64 but
also for own-grown non-debian 2.6.19 kernel.

Dick

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
   APT prefers unstable
   APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages yaird depends on:
ii  cpio                         2.9-2       GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
ii  dash                         0.5.4-1     The Debian Almquist Shell
ii  libc6                        2.6.1-1     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libhtml-template-perl        2.9-1       HTML::Template : A module for usin
ii  libparse-recdescent-perl     1.94.free-4 Generates recursive-descent parser
ii  perl                         5.8.8-7     Larry Wall's Practical Extraction

yaird recommends no packages.

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