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Mathias Gug (mathiaz) wrote : Re: [Bug 474660] [NEW] drbd8-utils not dependent on drbd8-source

On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 08:03:51PM -0000, Mike Shappell wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> The current drbd8-utils package has a dependency on the drbd8-source
> package. While I understand that the source package has been modified
> to build a DKMS module for the kernel, and the dependency ensures that a
> current (matching) kernel module is always built for the running kernel,
> I do not believe that this step is necessary.
>

The plan was to get rid of the drbd.ko module in the kernel package and use
DKMS instead. So the dependency is correct - the kernel package should not ship
the drbd module anymore.

  status confirmed
  importance medium

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