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module-init-tools package

  1. Bug #8832
  2. Comment #23

Comment 23 for bug 8832

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote :

The reason seems to be this:

module-init-tools (3.1-pre2-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release. (Closes: #254204)
  * Now /etc/modprobe.d/ is processed by modprobe. This means that
    /etc/modprobe.conf and /lib/modules/modprobe.conf are not needed
    anymore and update-modules is now a no-op. Executable scripts in
    /etc/modprobe.d/ are not supported anymore.
    /etc/modprobe.conf will be removed or moved to /etc/modprobe.d/.

Previously, /etc/modprobe.conf was automatically generated, so I suppose that on
upgrade, the file could contain duplicate configuration data.
Surely this could be handled better, though.