Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:17:35 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [klibc] [PATCH] initramfs: multiple CPIO unpacking fix |
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Jeff Bailey wrote: > > I've tended to think of this as a feature, actually. In Ubuntu, for > instance, we might have 2.6.15-8 and 2.6.15-9 which represent different > ABIs from security updates or other changes. If I have a module that is > intended to be compatible with both, I might setup /lib/modules/generic > to be a symlink to /lib/modules/2.6.15-9/ and unpack the modules after > the symlink is expected to be there. >
This is pretty broken for a bunch of other reasons, though. In particular, it prevents the very useful behaviour of providing a symlink in entry A that can be overridden by a file in entry B.
> (I don't think we use this feature right now, but I had tested it and > noted it before. It's very convenient, since it's the exact same > behaviour that dpkg itself has)
I would personally consider that a bug in dpkg :-/
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