Re: modutils 2.1.85...

Anthony DeStefano (destefano@usa.net)
Fri, 10 Apr 1998 18:09:51 -0400 (EDT)


On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, C. Scott Ananian wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Apr 1998 hpa wrote:
>
> While testing the million monkey theory, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >It is if it keeps the other thing from building (and no, I don't
> >consider "use make -k and ignore the errors" acceptable.) I solved
> >the problem at my end by using the modutils-2.1.85 RPM, which
> >unfortunately has a bogus dependency on /bin/sh in it :(
>
> As the packager of the modutils-2.1.85 rpm (I'm assuming you got it from
> redhat's pub/contrib), I can assure you that the dependency is not bogus.
> See /etc/rc.d/init.d/kerneld
> Granted, for a kmod system this is irrelevant, but a 2.1.x modutils
> package needs to include kerneld to be complete.

This is not a bogus dependincy in the modutils package but a known bug in
rpm. Try upgrading rpm.

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