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From: Hinnerk van Bruinehsen <h.v.bruinehsen@×××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] udev-181 and kmod vs module-init-tools
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:49:12
Message-Id: 4F6762CD.30407@fu-berlin.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] udev-181 and kmod vs module-init-tools by Paul Hartman
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4 Hi,
5
6 it worked flawless for me. Nothing "bad" happened.
7 If it's a server you could also build a monolithic Kernel and remove
8 the dependency completly since most servers don't need loadable
9 modules. It even adds a little security-wise...
10
11 with kind regards,
12 Hinnerk
13
14 On 19.03.2012 16:47, Paul Hartman wrote:
15 > udev-181 merge is blocked because :
16 >
17 > [blocks B ] sys-apps/module-init-tools
18 > ("sys-apps/module-init-tools" is blocking sys-apps/kmod-7) [blocks
19 > B ] sys-apps/kmod ("sys-apps/kmod" is blocking
20 > sys-apps/module-init-tools-3.16-r1)
21 >
22 > * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be *
23 > installed at the same time on the same system.
24 >
25 > (sys-apps/kmod-7::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by
26 >> =sys-apps/kmod-5 required by (sys-fs/udev-181::gentoo, ebuild
27 > scheduled for merge)
28 >
29 > (sys-apps/module-init-tools-3.16-r1::gentoo, installed) pulled in
30 > by
31 >> =sys-apps/module-init-tools-3.2 required by
32 > (virtual/modutils-0::gentoo, installed)
33 >
34 > Googling, it looks like kmod is the replacement for
35 > module-init-tools, so it should just work, unless of course any
36 > packages explicitly depend on module-init-tools instead of the
37 > virtual...
38 >
39 > However, module-init-tools is part of system profile and I get the
40 > scary red text and 10-second countdown when I try to unmerge, so I
41 > chickened out and did a ctrl-c. :)
42 >
43 > Have any of you already changed from module-init-tools to kmod?
44 > Anything to be afraid of? It's a remote machine and I can boot
45 > rescue CD if it breaks, but I'd rather not have to do that.
46 >
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Re: [gentoo-user] udev-181 and kmod vs module-init-tools Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>