Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 Feb 2003 20:25:16 +0200 | From | Muli Ben-Yehuda <> | Subject | Re: modutils that works with 2.4 and 2.5? |
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On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 11:12:03AM -0700, Dax Kelson wrote: > On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 23:00, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 11:52:23AM -0700, Dax Kelson wrote: > > > Does such a thing exist? > > > > > > I would like to help out testing 2.5, but I need to still use 2.4 as > > > well. > > > > Rusty's modutils package maintains the old modutils binaries and falls > > back to them if it discovers that you're running a 2.4 system. > > Does it do this discovery at install time, or at each boot?
Each invocation, I suppose. Doesn't make much sense otherwise.
see for example lsmod.c, main() -> try_old_version(). -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org http://syscalltrack.sf.net
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