Bug 2992 - Usage of .rhkmvtag in rc.sysinit
Summary: Usage of .rhkmvtag in rc.sysinit
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: initscripts
Version: 6.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: David Lawrence
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 1999-05-24 01:44 UTC by gaburici
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 1999-05-24 14:09:36 UTC
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Description gaburici 1999-05-24 01:44:18 UTC
It seems to me that linking /lib/modules/default to the
real modules directory is not enough. If there is no
/lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.dep then depmod -a will
fail.

To really make rhkmvtag to work I had to do it like this:

--- rc.sysinit.orig	Wed Apr 14 03:05:00 1999
+++ rc.sysinit	Mon May 24 04:07:24 1999
@@ -174,12 +174,17 @@
        mver=`uname -r`
     else
        ktag="`cat /proc/version`"
-       mtag=grep -l "$ktag" /lib/modules/*/.rhkmvtag 2>
/dev/null
+       mtag=`grep -l "$ktag" /lib/modules/*/.rhkmvtag 2>
/dev/null`
        if [ -n "$mtag" ]; then
-          mver=echo $mtag | sed -e 's,/lib/modules/,,' -e
's,/.rhkmvtag,,' -e 's,[       ].*$,,'
+          mver=`echo $mtag | sed -e 's,/lib/modules/,,' -e
's,/.rhkmvtag,,' -e 's,[       ].*$,,'`
        fi
+       mkerver="/lib/modules/`uname -r`"
        if [ -n "$mver" ]; then
-         ln -sf /lib/modules/$mver /lib/modules/default
+	  if [ ! -d "$mkerver" -o -L "$mkerver" ]; then
+    	     # ls -sf doesn't seem able to delete a link...
+	     rm -rf $mkerver
+	     ln -sf /lib/modules/$mver $mkerver
+	  fi
        fi
     fi
     [ -n "$mver" -a -f "/boot/module-info-$mver" ] && ln
-sf /boot/module-info-$mver /boot/module-info

This conicidentaly fixes bug 2755 as well.

[note: there may be some unfortunate line wrapping due to
the bugzilla web interface.]


------- Email Received From  Vasile Gaburici <gaburici> 05/23/99 21:50 -------

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 1999-05-24 14:09:59 UTC
First of all, you shouldn't be using rhkmvtag if you can avoid it.
Using the EXTRAVERSION tag in the kernel makefile is much more sane.

This has been fixed (in a slightly different manner) in the  latest
initscripts in Raw Hide.


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