Re: [PATCH] modutils 2.3.20 and beyond

From: Jeff V. Merkey (jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org)
Date: Sun Nov 26 2000 - 19:03:34 EST


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.
> >
>
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