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Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:03:34 -0700
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
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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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