Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 00:38:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 00:38:34 -0500 Received: from dp.samba.org ([66.70.73.150]:50333 "EHLO lists.samba.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 00:38:33 -0500 From: Rusty Russell To: tomlins@cam.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ALPHA RELEASE] module-init-tools 0.9-alpha In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 01 Dec 2002 22:20:57 CDT." <20021202032057.60AB1EC3@oscar.casa.dyndns.org> Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 16:43:59 +1100 Message-Id: <20021202054602.2CB522C06B@lists.samba.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1102 Lines: 27 In message <20021202032057.60AB1EC3@oscar.casa.dyndns.org> you write: > I just built and installed 0.9-beta. First it tried to install into > /usr/local/sbin which is pretty useless here. Fix this with --prefix= > and tried again. This time it put things in /sbin as expected, but did > not rename the old files with a .old suffix. Should this still happen? > If not, what happened with backwards compat? First line of the README: READ INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY, OTHERWISE YOU MAY DESTROY YOUR OLD UTILS! Reinstall your old modutils, then read the README. There's a "check-destroy-old" target in Makefile.am, I'm just trying to figure out how to get autoconf to run it before the install target. You're probably thinking I should fix this ASAP, and I think you're right 8) Rusty. -- Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/