Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 26 Nov 2000 19:43:14 -0700 | From | "Jeff V. Merkey" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] modutils 2.3.20 and beyond |
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On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 10:23:08AM +1100, Keith Owens wrote: > On Sun, 26 Nov 2000 16:36:55 -0700, > "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org> wrote: > >Keith, > > > >Please consider the attached patch for inclusion in all future versions > >of the modutils depmod program for compatiblity with RedHat and > >RedHat derived Linux distributions. > > I have a big problem with Redhat. They make incompatible changes to > utilities, do not feed patches back to maintainers then expect the rest > of the world to follow their lead. The -i and -m flags to modutils are > not the only example, I recently found IA64 and Sparc patches they had > added to modutils code and not bothered to tell me. Other distributors > are much better about sending me patches, Debian and SuSe in particular > do the right thing. > > Since "-F System.map" in modutils is equivalent to "-m System.map -i" > and works on all distributions, not just Redhat, the "-m -i" patch is > unnecessary. Consider this my protest against bad habits by > distributors, they created the mess with their lack of communication > and they have to fix it.
Well Keith, I will never fail to post back changes to you, as evidenced by the fact I did send you one. Anconda is open sourced, and as such, is no longer owned by any distributor. The question is whether to diverge it from theirs. I would like to not do this, since, as you point out, it generates changes back the other way.
It's your call. I can keep the patch around because I really don't want to diverge anaconda any more than I have to. At some point, perhaps they will get changes to you more timely.
:-)
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