[Mageia-dev] Report on my update from 1

[David W. Hodgins]

On Sun, 01 Apr 2012 16:26:41 -0400, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:

> 'Twas brillig, and Thierry Vignaud at 01/04/12 20:01 did gyre and gimble:
>> On 1 April 2012 02:01, Pascal Terjan <pterjan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> - While dracut was running, it displayed plenty of libkmod: index_mm_open:
>>> major version check fail: 65537 instead of 2953311319
>>
>> This is because kernel's module*bin are still generated by module-init-tools,
>> not by kmod yet.
>
> Is this something we can ignore?

I don't think so.  It's likely to generate a lot of
bug reports, and isn't good for the image of Mageia.

> FWIW, I've been running the kmod versions of things for a while. It's
> very late in the cycle to consider flipping over to them rather than
> module-init-tools, but I have made sure it's just a simple matter of
> flipping a --with argument in kmod package if we do.

I think it should be treated as a bug that needs to be
fixed.  The sooner it gets done, the better the chance
to find any problems and get them fixed before release
freeze.

Regards, Dave Hodgins