In alt.os.linux.debian Darren Salt <news@youmustbejoking.demon.cu.invalid> wrote:
> I demand that Ant may or may not have written...
 
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> Towel Day on the 25th... ;-)

Uhh, OK. I don't know what that is about but whatever.

 
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> (Hmm, just noticed - "freed". OTOH, that'd be across all affected partitio
ns,
> and there could still be more used space on some of them...)

Hm.

 
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> Not really, at least at that point - it has only the total size of the
> package, both compressed and installed. It doesn't have any knowledge of
> what's where until installation occurs, and even then it'd have to look at
> the actual filesystem(s).

OK.

 
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> Then the package installation script output which you reported is misleading.[/vbc
ol]

Yeah, or something made it confused.

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> You've not taken /lib/modules/$VERSION into account, and some of the files
> there are generated by depmod.

$ ls -all /lib/modules/
total 9
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root 1024 May  3 11:52 .
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 5120 May  3 14:44 ..
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 1024 May  3 07:26 2.6.18-3-k7
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 1024 May  3 07:30 2.6.18-4-k7
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 1024 Dec 21 21:40 2.6.8-3-k7

# locate modules.dep
/lib/modules/2.6.18-3-k7/modules.dep
/lib/modules/2.6.18-4-k7/modules.dep
/usr/share/man/man5/modules.dep.5.gz

# ls /lib/modules/2.6.18-4-k7/ -all
total 1348
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root   1024 May  3 20:56 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root   1024 May  3 11:52 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     34 May  2 15:32 build -> /usr/src/linux-headers-2
.6.18-4-k7
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root   1024 Feb  3 16:17 kernel
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   1024 May  3 07:30 misc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 298175 May  3 20:56 modules.alias
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     69 May  3 20:56 modules.ccwmap
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 328497 May  3 20:56 modules.dep
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    813 May  3 20:56 modules.ieee1394map
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    730 May  3 20:56 modules.inputmap
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  21839 May  3 20:56 modules.isapnpmap
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     74 May  3 20:56 modules.ofmap
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 235243 May  3 20:56 modules.pcimap
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1135 May  3 20:56 modules.seriomap
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 136719 May  3 20:56 modules.symbols
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 334134 May  3 20:56 modules.usbmap
# ls /lib/modules/2.6.18-3-k7/ -all
total 1355
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root   1024 May  3 07:26 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root   1024 May  3 11:52 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     34 Dec 21 21:40 build -> /usr/src/linux-headers-2
.6.18-3-k7
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root   1024 Dec 21 13:22 kernel
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 299849 Jan 31 01:45 modules.alias
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     69 Jan 31 01:45 modules.ccwmap
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 329296 Jan 31 01:45 modules.dep
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    813 Jan 31 01:45 modules.ieee1394map
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    730 Jan 31 01:45 modules.inputmap
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  21839 Jan 31 01:45 modules.isapnpmap
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     74 Jan 31 01:45 modules.ofmap
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 235607 Jan 31 01:45 modules.pcimap
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1135 Jan 31 01:45 modules.seriomap
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 136719 Jan 31 01:45 modules.symbols
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 339383 Jan 31 01:45 modules.usbmap

/lib/modules/2.6.18-3-k7/modules.dep and
/lib/modules/2.6.18-4-k7/modules.dep can be found in a zip file at
http://www.savefile.com/files/691436 for viewing.

Running depmod -a didn't show anything errors. Anything else I should
output?
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