[arch-dev-public] kmod-3 in [testing]

Hey all, I've just dropped kmod-3 into testing as a replacement for module-init-tools. This is still a young project, but it has a lot of support from active people, and I (as well as Tom) have been working closely with upstream to flesh out and fix bugs. For the most part, you should not notice any difference. kmod was designed as a drop-in replacement for m-i-t, and all the binaries should exist with the (mostly) the same options. Whenever possible, options or features marked deprecated in m-i-t were removed, such as: - parsing of depmod/modprobe config for files not ending in .conf - modprobe's -l, --list options IMPORTANT: In line with the first change, it needs to be pointed out that we will no longer package /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf. This means that if you wrote to that file, it will be .pacsave'd on removal of m-i-t and you must rename it. We will continue to ship what used to be called /etc/depmod.d/depmod.conf, but rename it /lib/depmod.d/search.conf. This will be a read only file -- users should put their own tweaks in /etc/depmod.d. One other thing you might notice is that kmod doesn't currently include man pages. I don't consider this a loss -- the m-i-t manpages did not provide full coverage, nor did the command line help. kmod's binaries all currently have full coverage of options via -h, --help. Lastly, there's an accompanying mkinitcpio update to account for some extra verbosity of kmod's modprobe and depmod tools. You do *not* need to regenerate your initramfs images unless you feel so inclined. Have fun! Regards, Dave -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 490 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/attachments/20120105/6ea70583/attachment.asc>