Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 26 Nov 2000 19:39:28 -0700 | From | "Jeff V. Merkey" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] modutils 2.3.20 and beyond |
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On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 04:15:02PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 05:03:34PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > > 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. > > I hate to jump in here in the middle of a perfectly good argument but I'd like > to point out a few things: > a) If RedHat/RedHat-like distros needs these changes they can include this > patch. The plus side is it won't piss off the people that seem to care and > don't use said distros the down side is that if/when another security update > comes out people will have to hope this patch applies easily still, if they > update themselves. > b) Are these switches which used to be valid in modutils 2.3.x? If so, why? > It makes perfect sense to keep this patch around until modutils 2.4 (or 2.5 > if modutils version is still supposed to match kernel version). If these > are old modutils 2.2.x switches, see part a). > And c) Why does it matter if RedHat/etc would have to adapt their scripts. > There's always part a, or what debian does for stable sometimes, backporting > fixes. Or even lots of sed & awk magic.
Oh well. Look like %patch -p1 in the rpm for now.
Jeff
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