Bug 253814 - FEAT: honor kernel's INSTALL_MOD_PATH environment variable
Summary: FEAT: honor kernel's INSTALL_MOD_PATH environment variable
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: mkinitrd
Version: 8
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Peter Jones
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-08-22 03:08 UTC by Glauber Costa
Modified: 2008-07-14 20:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-07-14 20:11:02 UTC
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proposed patch (1.58 KB, patch)
2007-08-22 03:08 UTC, Glauber Costa 		no flags Details | Diff
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Description Glauber Costa 2007-08-22 03:08:34 UTC 
Linux build system can install modules into an alternate directory through
INSTALL_MOD_PATH environment variable. However, current mkinitrd will always
search for modules in /lib/modules.

It would be nice to have the tool to search the modules from the freshly
installed alternate location.

I'm attaching a proposed patch for this.
Comment 1 Glauber Costa 2007-08-22 03:08:34 UTC 
Created attachment 162026 [details]
proposed patch
Comment 2 Peter Jones 2008-07-14 20:11:02 UTC 
mkinitrd now uses modprobe, from module-init-tools to accomplish this task.  If
this functionality is still desired, it'd need to be added there.
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