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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Modules in 2.5.47-bk...
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Adrian Bunk wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 04:45:16PM +0100, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
>
> >Rusty Russell  writes:
> >
> >
> >>>The backward compat thing is really a hack, and not system
> >>>software done right :( modutils should not need to rename all its
> >>>binaries *.old -- and have that be the default that users see when
> >>>installing the rpm.  No company worth its shareholders would
> >>>release a package full of "*.old" binaries.  Come on...
> >>
> >>OK, would calling it "*-2.4" or something help?
> >
> >most distros come with some alternative system (at lest, debian, mdk &
> >rh), so this problem can legally be left to vendors.
>
>
> The alternative system doesn't work in this case because it doesn't help
> you when you want to switch between 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. You need some
> kind of wrapper.



Agreed.  The alternatives stuff I am familiar with does not changes 
symlinks based on the version of booted kernel, AFAIK.

	Jeff



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