Re: 2 new commits to Bering-uClibc

Hi KP

Am 20.08.2015 um 19:40 schrieb kp kirchdoerfer:
> HI all;
>
> maybe we can make a step backwards in this discussion and can think about my
> proposal to reduce the pain:
>
> "The whole pb started here AFAIK:
> "Modules that are copied manually, should be saved. Modules that are
> loaded from squashfs aren't added to moddb.tgz to reduce it's size."

We never saved to modules.tgz

>
>
> Now we can argue that a user who has enough space for leaving modules.sqfs on
> his boot media, will have enough left for a bigger moddb.lrp than necessary
> (except those booting from iso image, who can't remove modules.sqfs).

On ISO there is no chance and no need to do anything anyway.

>
> There is a case to remove modules.sqfs even beyond space, to speed up boot
> time, so autodetection stops immediately due to "missing modules.sqfs".

Right, and here is where moddb has to be popuplated.

>
> So if we go back and never write anything to /var/lib/lrpkg/sqfs.modules we
> can get rid of the changes to update moddb properly, addinga config option to
> leaf.cfg  etc...

Or just leave sqfs.modules away completely. If modules.sqfs is 
available, use it, else just forget aubout it....

cheers

ET

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