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Don’t attempt to create a module database when none are available

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From: Ivan Kozlov <kanichos <at> yandex.ru>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 40430 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#40430] Don’t attempt to create a module database when none are available
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" <ludo <at> gnu.org>:
> 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’.

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