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module-init-tools package

  1. Bug #8832
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 8832

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 11:13:10 +0200
From: Eduard Bloch <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: no warning in the manpage

reopen 269305
thanks

That is not true! I have just read the modprobe.conf manpage and there
was no good hint, no visible warning about that UNEXPECTED behaviour of
the new modprobe. There may be a side comment somewhere, but it is NOT
documented well enough.
Really, I expected that a tool like update-modules
still reads /etc/modprobe.d and created /etc/modprobe.conf, and I spent
a lot of time figuring out that this is not the case (and even worse,
some unknown package has silently created that file).

What I expect as user (and average admin), is a proper notice:

 - separate paragraph in the modprobe and modprobe.conf manpages!
 - a warning appearing when the init script starts and modprobe.conf
   exist and something in modprobe.d/ exists as well. Eg.

WARNING: modprobe.conf exists, modprobe.d/ contents are ignored (see
modprobe.conf(5) for details, /etc/default/module-init-tools to hide warnings)

Regards,
Eduard.
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