"ZJ" == Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek zbyszek@in.waw.pl writes:
ZJ> kernel-install already calls depmod (from ZJ> /usr/lib/kernel/install.d/50-depmod.install).
I'm not sure that's sufficient. Packages can install modules at any time and I believe depmod needs to be called when this happens. Thus the kernel packages need a file trigger on the /lib/modules/XXX directory that they own. Either that or something at a different level needs to be responsible for calling depmod for things installed under /lib/module.
The depmod call in kernel-install is really somewhat redundant, though I don't think calling depmod is particularly slow so it probably doesn't much matter.
- J<