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authorJoey Hess <joey@gnu.kitenet.net>2009-03-05 12:51:16 -0500
committerJoey Hess <joey@gnu.kitenet.net>2009-03-05 12:51:16 -0500
commit14f322661663b3d95231fa2a499e856fc1689e14 (patch)
treee4fd57f0e404c0486ce0e05d9776b9b0d0d09d86 /dh_installmodules
parent5dc2a6139883efbd928c3dde46da0a669011fb83 (diff)
add docs
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@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ run depmod and register the modules when the package is installed.
These commands are inserted into the maintainer scripts by dh_installdeb.
See L<dh_installdeb(1)> for an explanation of how this works.
+Previous versions of dh_installmodules installed files named
+etc/modprobe.d/package, code is added to the preinst and postinst to
+handle the upgrade from the old location.
+
Previous versions of dh_installmodules also supported
files named debian/package.modules, which were installed into
etc/modutils/package in the package build directory. This was for use by