Subject: Re: [bug#40430] Don’t attempt to create a module database when none are available

From: Ivan Kozlov <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2020 21:04:02 +0300

The intent was to allow a Linux package with CONFIG_MODULES=n to work after 5c79f238634c5adb6657f1b4b1bb4ddb8bb73ef1. There are no modules and no ‘lib/modules’.

Will you accept a patch that changes linux-module-database to skip unsuitable inputs instead?

21.04.2020, 01:12, "Ludovic Courtès" <[email-masked]>:
> There were a couple of mistakes in this patch (which is fine, we all
> make mistakes!), so I reverted it along with explanations:
>
>   https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=71977a6c59460e029c91741c8b11f3a544a70486
>
> What problem were you trying to solve, Ivan? What do you mean by
> “non-modular kernel”?
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.