[Pkg-uml-devel] Re: Why does linux-uml Conflicts with
user-mode-linux?
Manoj Srivastava
srivasta at debian.org
Thu May 25 00:10:10 UTC 2006
Hi,
On 24 May 2006, Mattia Dongili told this:
> Which problems are are you talking about? Anything that can be
> solved (or it already is)?
For the longest time, the package user-mode-linux was broken,
and you could only have one uml version installed at any given
time. linux-uml packages do not have this limitation, they use
alternatives to let multiple version install /usr/bin/linmux.
If user-mode-linux wants to participate in there, fine.It is
easy to reset the dependency.
> BTW: removing the appropriate lines fomr
> Control let linux-uml install just fine here (but it has some
> problems due to some missing patch we instead apply related to the
> uml_net install path of debian's uml-utilites).
Yeah. I work around it by temporarily changing my PATH
(actually, I use daemon transport, so I don't have to bother).
> Any chance to change modules install path to not kill the usual
> directory structure (`uname -r`/kernel/{arch,crypto,...})?
Err, no path killing is done. We run modules-install in the
kernel source dir as normal, so the dir structure hackery is not
done by kernel-package.
> We are doing: cp -R /usr/lib/uml/modules/* $TARGET/lib/modules in
> rootstrap to push all available modules into the root-fs, I did hope
> we could catch also linux-uml modules. I didn't even expect the
> Conflict outlined above, so this is not currently possible anyway,
> but still it would be nice to allow cohexistence.
Well, the conflict is usually for the /usr/bin/linux and
/usr/share/man/man1/linux.1 files. If user-mode-linux would use the
alternatives for that as well, the conflict would go away.
manoj
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