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From: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org>
To: "Mohammad A. Haque" <mhaque@haque.net>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] modutils 2.3.20 and beyond
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:03:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001126170334.B1787@vger.timpanogas.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001126163655.A1637@vger.timpanogas.org> <E140AZB-0002Qh-00@the-village.bc.nu> <20001126164556.B1665@vger.timpanogas.org> <3A21968B.5CDB12BF@haque.net>
In-Reply-To: <3A21968B.5CDB12BF@haque.net>; from mhaque@haque.net on Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 06:02:35PM -0500

On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 06:02:35PM -0500, Mohammad A. Haque wrote:
> I'd rather have Anaconda changed rather than special casing standard
> utils to account for distro handling.

Great.  Then tell RedHat to rewrite it without the need for these switches.
They will say NO.  It's a trivial change, and would save me a lot of hours
rewriting scripts.  I did it once, but if RedHat has standardized on this
set of switches, why not add them as alias commands?  It's a trivial 
patch.

Jeff

> 
> "Jeff V. Merkey" wrote:
> > 
> > Anaconda will barf and require over 850+ changes to the scripts without
> > it.  If you look at the patch, you will note that it's a silent switch
> > that's only there to avoid a noisy error message from depmod.  It
> > actually does nothing other than set a flag that also does nothing.
> > -m simply maps to -F.
> > 
> 
> -- 
> 
> =====================================================================
> Mohammad A. Haque                              http://www.haque.net/ 
>                                                mhaque@haque.net
> 
>   "Alcohol and calculus don't mix.             Project Lead
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  reply	other threads:[~2000-11-26 23:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-11-26 23:36 [PATCH] modutils 2.3.20 and beyond Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-26 22:46 ` Alan Cox
2000-11-26 23:27   ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-26 23:45   ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-26 23:02     ` Mohammad A. Haque
2000-11-27  0:03       ` Jeff V. Merkey [this message]
2000-11-26 23:15         ` Tom Rini
2000-11-27  2:39           ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-27  0:16         ` David Ford
2000-11-27  2:46           ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-27  1:58             ` Tom Rini
2000-11-27  0:13     ` David Ford
2000-11-27  2:11       ` Alan Cox
2000-11-27  3:33         ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-26 23:23 ` Keith Owens
2000-11-27  2:43   ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-27 16:48   ` Jes Sorensen
2000-11-27 16:59     ` Jakub Jelinek

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