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    SubjectRe: modutils that works with 2.4 and 2.5?
    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().
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    Muli Ben-Yehuda
    http://www.mulix.org
    http://syscalltrack.sf.net

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