module-init-tools: config file for weak-modules

Jon Masters jonathan at jonmasters.org
Tue Mar 20 12:58:54 CST 2007


Matt_Domsch at dell.com wrote:

> I propose module-init-tools adds a config file,
> /etc/sysconfig/module-init-tools, with values as such:
> 
> on Red Hat:
> WEAK_MODULES_BIN='/sbin/weak-modules'
> ADDON_MODULES_DIR='extra'
> 
> on SuSE:
> WEAK_MODULES_BIN='/usr/lib/module-init-tools/weak-modules'
> ADDON_MODULES_DIR='updates'
> 
> 
> With this, DKMS and the weak-module executable can source in the config
> file and use these variables accordingly for each distribution.
> 
> Thoughts?

I'm happy to add that to the module-init-tools package on RHEL. 
Obviously it's not an upstream solution at this moment so as long as 
both NOVL and RHT can agree on this one... :-)

Jon.



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