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From: Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386@yahoo.com.ar>
To: Pawel Kot <pkot@linuxnews.pl>
Cc: szepe@pinerecords.com, kaos@ocs.com.au, rusty@rustcorp.com.au,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: module-init-tools don't support gzipped modules.
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 04:13:25 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030801041325.2f350944.vmlinuz386@yahoo.com.ar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0307311149110.11927-100000@urtica.linuxnews.pl>

On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 11:52:28 +0200 (CEST), Pawel Kot wrote:
>On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Tomas Szepe wrote:
>
>> > [kaos@ocs.com.au]
>> >
>> > On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 02:46:23 +1000,
>> > Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote:
>> > >I don't want to require zlib, though.  The modutils I have
>(Debian)> > >doesn't support it, either.
>> >
>> > Really?  modutils 2.4: ./configure --enable-zlib
>>
>> Keith, I believe Rusty meant the standard Debian package had binaries
>> compiled w/o '--enable-zlib'.
>>
>> (And so has Slackware btw.)
>
>Slackware since 8.0 uses compression for the kernel modules by
>default and uses --enable-zlib for modutils.
>See:
>ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-9.0/source/a/modutils/
>modutils.SlackBuild

yes, originally I wrote the mail, commenting on the necessity of gzip,
because of mails that interchanges with Patrick Volkerding about the
inclusion of 2.6.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-08-01  7:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-30  9:22 module-init-tools don't support gzipped modules Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
2003-07-30 10:10 ` Bas Mevissen
2003-07-30 10:15   ` Tomas Szepe
2003-07-30 16:46     ` Rusty Russell
2003-07-30 19:11       ` Bill Nottingham
2003-07-31  1:06       ` Keith Owens
2003-07-31  9:19         ` Tomas Szepe
2003-07-31  9:52           ` Pawel Kot
2003-07-31  9:57             ` Tomas Szepe
2003-08-01  7:13             ` Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi [this message]
2003-07-31 14:33         ` Willy Tarreau
2003-08-01  6:30           ` Rusty Russell
2003-08-01  7:14             ` Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
2003-07-31  9:17       ` Tomas Szepe

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