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quayasil

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Registered: 2008-11-09

Posts: 102

depmod moved from /sbin to /usr/bin/depmod ???

I'm using 2.6.39-r3 kernel. From time to time I like to check if a new 3.2 works any better for my notebook. It never does ;-) so:

# pacman -fU kernel26-2.6.39.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

Someone has moved depmod from /sbin to /usr/bin and I experienced a problem similar to https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=134562 . Fortunately, creating a symlink:

# ln -s /usr/bin/depmod /sbin/depmod

solved my problem (otherwise system won't boot) but...

If some critical files are moved why not leave a symlink by default?

Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 3,605

Re: depmod moved from /sbin to /usr/bin/depmod ???

There is a symlink now, starting with kmod-5-4. The reason it wasn't there from the beginning... well, it's hard to know what will break until it breaks