see #qpkg -l module-init-tools #qpkg -l modutils they overwrite each other
at least modprobe, depmod, rmmod and insmod shows sys-apps/module-init-tools * sys-apps/modutils *
if you want to use 2.6.x then emerge module-init-tools then to use 2.4.x, use modprobe.old, depmod.old, etc... about the only to do here would be to put blockers against the other package ...
Both provide virtual/modutils - when we go perm 2.6, module-init-tools will provide the default for this, so it is your responsibility for now (like any other instance where more than one packages supply the same virtual) to unmerge the older one if you merge a new one.
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I accept the fact about it being "our responsibility", but f.e. I had no clue that I need module-init-tools instead of modutils after moving to 2.6 kernel. There should atleast be a ewarn message in kernel-2.eclass that informs user about this.
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Can we do anything about this? It seems that a lot of users are running into problems, especially after the recent modutils upgrade (modutils overwrites module-init-tools' core binaries).
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they block each other now
Looks like we can't win that easily.. Users who have both modutils and module-init-tools installed are running into issues now that the block is in place. From an emerge -u world: [blocks B ] sys-apps/modutils (from pkg sys-apps/module-init-tools-3.0-r2) [blocks B ] sys-apps/module-init-tools (from pkg sys-apps/modutils-2.4.25) Anything more we can do, or just let users figure it out?
blockers are simple, you remove one we cant try and guess which version the user wants
Well it doesn't seam to help in this case. I remove module-init-tools (whitch I don't understand why was installed at first place as I use a 2.4 kernel and headers), re-emerge modutils(as I read they overwrite each other) and on emerge world portage complains the 'modutils' block 'module-init-tools' which portage for some reason want to intall again. If I have understood it right 'module-init-tools' are for 2.6 kernels and headers or?
cant really help w/out `emerge info`
Ok sorry, it was late :-) here it is: merc ~ # emerge info Portage 2.0.51_rc1 (default-linux/x86/2004.2, gcc-3.4.1, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r0, 2.4.27-gentoo-r1 i586) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.27-gentoo-r1 i586 AMD-K6(tm) 3D+ Processor Gentoo Base System version 1.5.3 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3 Headers: sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.21,sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.22,sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.19-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=k6-3 -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=k6-3 -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp:///ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ http://gentoo.tiscali.nl/gentoo/ http://www.gigaload.org/gentoo.org/ http://gentoo.mirror.sdv.fr" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="aalib apache2 avi berkdb crypt encode foomaticdb gd gdbm ggi gif gpm gtk2 imap imlib jpeg libg++ libwww mad maildir mpeg mysql ncurses nls pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline sasl sdl slang snmp spell ssl tcpd tiff truetype usb vhosts wmf x86 xml xml2 zeo zlib"
check your world file to make sure both arent listed ...
Nope, only modutils. I had 'gentoo-test-sources' there as well as 'gentoo-sources', probably because they were 'test' when I upgraded the kernel first. But even removing it leave emerge to call for a need to install
Nope, only modutils. I had 'gentoo-test-sources' there as well as 'gentoo-sources', probably because they were 'test' when I upgraded the kernel first. But even removing it leave emerge to call for a need to install ämodule-init-tools'? Here is my complete world: media-libs/gd dev-tcltk/expect media-libs/tiff dev-perl/libwww-perl dev-db/mysql app-arch/unzip app-dicts/aspell-cs dev-libs/openssl dev-perl/XML-Parser dev-perl/MIME-Base64 app-portage/mirrorselect www-client/prozilla dev-perl/TermReadKey app-crypt/mhash net-www/apache app-arch/unrar mail-client/mutt dev-perl/Test-Builder-Tester net-analyzer/snort app-admin/syslog-ng sys-kernel/gentoo-sources net-dns/bind sys-devel/libperl dev-perl/Digest-MD5 app-admin/ulogd dev-perl/DBD-mysql media-libs/libpng net-mail/courier-imap sys-fs/reiserfsprogs dev-perl/DB_File net-misc/lrzsz dev-perl/CGI dev-util/dialog net-libs/libwww dev-perl/DBI net-www/webapp-config media-libs/pdflib dev-libs/cyrus-sasl net-mail/vacation dev-perl/Test-Harness sys-apps/modutils sys-libs/glibc app-editors/nano dev-php/mod_php net-misc/ntp app-admin/makepasswd app-dicts/aspell-sv mail-filter/spamassassin app-admin/usermin app-text/ghostscript dev-perl/Archive-Tar dev-libs/libxslt dev-perl/Safe net-misc/telnet-bsd mail-mta/postfix dev-perl/Authen-PAM app-arch/lha dev-perl/Net-Daemon sys-apps/memtest86 net-analyzer/net-snmp net-www/lynx dev-util/strace app-portage/ufed app-admin/logrotate mail-filter/amavis sys-devel/gettext app-admin/webmin dev-perl/Storable net-ftp/pure-ftpd sys-libs/pam_mysql dev-perl/Net-SSLeay dev-libs/libxml2 dev-libs/gmp app-dicts/aspell-en dev-perl/Archive-Zip dev-php/jpgraph app-dicts/aspell-es net-firewall/iptables app-portage/gentoolkit net-dns/bind-tools app-dicts/aspell-uk dev-perl/module-build dev-perl/PlRPC dev-libs/libpcre sys-apps/fcron sys-apps/coreutils net-misc/whois net-www/mod_layout dev-perl/mod_perl dev-perl/Convert-UUlib app-antivirus/clamav net-www/mod_auth_mysql net-firewall/shorewall app-crypt/gnupg dev-perl/MIME-tools app-text/aspell media-gfx/imagemagick dev-perl/MD5 app-admin/apg Is upgrade from gentoo-sources-2.4 to 2.6 a plain go, or does it need a lot of 'fixing'? I assume 2.6 start to become defacto now or stil unstable?
Well just found out that module-init-tools are backward compatible with 2.4 so the correct thing to do is removing modutils rather then module-init-tools. Now I just wonder how it is with this and 2.6 headers, are they also backward compatible. Asking because there seam to be an issue with new glibc that seam to need the 2.6 headers to compile.
To compile the new glibc: emerge unmerge linux-headers emerge linux26-headers emerge glibc
