ACK w/cmnt: LP#1021174 -- ensure module lists contain all modules

[Stefan Bader]

On 05.07.2012 14:46, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> When building split packages such as virtual we are splitting out
> the modules into linux-image-* and linux-image-extra-*, however
> when accumulating the module lists for the ABI we only consider the
> linux-image-* package contents.  This means that each build will report
> a large number of NEW packages and in theory modules could go missing
> from linux-image-extra-* without being detected.  In the common case we
> would catch this as loss in the other non-split flavours but it seems
> appropriate to fix it.
> 
> Following this are two patch sets, one for oneiric and one for precise.
> The oneiric stack contains an additional change which is already applied
> to precise and quantal.
> 
> Proposing for oneiric and precise.  We did not use split packages before
> oneiric.
> 
> Note that this will likely have knock on effects on some of the stable
> tooling which also pull the ABI.  Of course those tools _should_ use the
> in tree code really if at all possible to avoid such skew, but I do not
> believe they do.  
> 
> -apw
> 
I believe this looks about right. Yes, external tools need to follow. Those
could be using the in-kernel versions if we are sure those are always reliable
(Hardy!?)...


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