On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 09:52 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Jon Masters (jcm(a)redhat.com) said:
> This works fine, but means that, if we upgrade module-init-tools and
> there is a binary format change, then the system will be "slow" booting
> before depmod has been re-run again. I'm thinking about just doing a
> "depmod -a" on upgrade in such cases in the future...is there a problem
> with that idea?
Given the (presumable) infreqeuency of file format updates, especially
compared to kernel updates, I wouldn't necessarily bother with it.
Neither would I, but the difference in "boot" time is fairly dramatic
and people might whine ;)
Jon.