Updating depmod for big endian builds

If the user is using an old machine like a RHEL4 machine, the version of depmod in /sbin/depmod is not sufficient for a big endian build to succeed.

The below is one way to solve this problem. However keep in mind that the steps described below will replace your machines depmod with an non-RHEL4 version.

Download the rpm from the link

And then issue the following commands

sudo rpmbuild --rebuild module-init-tools-3.3-0.pre3.1.60.el5.src.rpm

and then in the appropriate directory give the command below

sudo rpm -U module-init-tools-3.3-0.pre3.1.60.i386.rpm

The directory in which the above command needs to be executed will differ from machine to machine. One probably location might be /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386