Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 26 Nov 2000 19:46:43 -0700 | From | "Jeff V. Merkey" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] modutils 2.3.20 and beyond |
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On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 04:16:26PM -0800, David Ford wrote: > "Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: > > > 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. > > Then let RedHat maintain their version of modutils. RedHat isn't the > standard, nor should RedHat dictate to authors, nor should other distributions > and persons be affected by RedHat's methods. > > If you don't like it, replace your depmod with a script that strips that flag > before calling the original depmod.
Anaconda is open sourced, so it's not technically tied to any one distributor any more....
Jeff
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