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[Damien Mascord <tusker AT tusker.org>]

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functions are bad because when you copy an init script over from another 
distro, you have a hell of a time "adapting" the init.d script to the 
particular distro or OS...

but that's a side issue :)

Damien


At 12:24 PM 17/09/2002 -0700, you wrote:

> nealbirch said:
> > Jose Bernardo Silva wrote:
> >> Their changelog has for some time that the detection
> >> of the asus as99127f has now been fixed (in cvs) and
> >> will be in the next version, so I think they are aware
> >> of the problem... But have no release date yet for the
> >> 2.6.5 version.
> >
> > Great. Have to snag what's off cvs, I guess. Mine shows the 2 temp's
> > right, but 2 fans and one temp are way off.
> >
> > There is an issue for this and other spells that when cast put init
> > scripts where they belong; whether to copy the default script or the
> > function-using scripts. Shouldn't be hard, though, we can add something
> > like:
> >
> > if [ -f /etc/init.d/functions ]; then
> > install -m 755 $SCRIPT_DIRECTORY/script-w.sh /etc/init.d/script.sh else
> > install -m 755 $SCRIPT_DIRECTORY/script-wo.sh /etc/init.d/script.sh fi
> >
> > with the appropriate scripts (w = with functions, wo =  without) in the
> > $SCRIPT_DIRECTORY.
>
> If there are two versions of the script available, shouldn't we just use
> the functions script?  Why would we want to use the other script?  That'll
> just make a mess later on, and I see no benefit to doing this.  What's
> wrong with functions?
>
> -One of Four
> a.k.a. sandalle
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