Re: Modules in 2.5.47-bk...

Thierry Vignaud (tvignaud@mandrakesoft.com)
Thu, 14 Nov 2002 16:45:16 +0100


Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> writes:

> > The backward compat thing is really a hack, and not system
> > software done right :( modutils should not need to rename all its
> > binaries *.old -- and have that be the default that users see when
> > installing the rpm. No company worth its shareholders would
> > release a package full of "*.old" binaries. Come on...
>
> OK, would calling it "*-2.4" or something help?

most distros come with some alternative system (at lest, debian, mdk &
rh), so this problem can legally be left to vendors.

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