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[nealbirch <nealbirch AT attbi.com>]

Eric Sandall wrote:
> > Am I wrong in thinking this should wait till after a reboot
> > into the new kernel? I'm just wondering if it would be simpler to dispel
> > those things until after the usual rebuild cleanup and reboot into new
> > kernel, then recast those things which are dependent on that new kernel.
>
>
> Sounds a lot like solutions from M$.  :)  

=P

> Anyways, it is true that some
> things (alsa-drivers, lm_sensors, etc.) need to be compiled after you have
> booted into the new kernel.  We talked a little about this before, but no
> solution presented itself.

I keep looking at /etc/init.d/sorcery.sh and wondering what the heck 
it's doing in there if we don't use it.

#!/bin/sh
# /etc/init.d/sorcerer.sh

if  [ -x  /usr/sbin/sgl.install  ];  then
  /bin/rm  -f  /usr/sbin/sgl.install  2>  /dev/null  ||
  /usr/sbin/sgl.install
fi

#end /etc/init.d/sorcerer.sh

actually, I don't know what it does at all... if you have execute 
permissions over the script, delete it?! What the heck is that for? And 
|| is a logical operator. why is it there? Does it do something else?

if [ $condition1 ] || [ $condition2 ]
# Same as:  if [ $condition1 -o $condition2 ]
# Returns true if either condition1 or condition2 holds true...

Seems to me we could modify this a bit:

#!/bin/sh
# /etc/init.d/sorcerer.sh

if  [ -x  /usr/sbin/sgl.install  ];  then
  /usr/sbin/sgl.install
fi

#end /etc/init.d/sorcerer.sh

and have sgl.install be a script that casts the POST_INSTALL linux 
modules to install them then delete itself. This would actually be a 
pretty simple script:

#!/bin/bash
# /usr/sbin/sgl.install
# source the libary files so you can use spell_installed function
version=devel   #set to whichever codex
SCRIPT_DIRECTORY=/var/lib/sorcery/codex/$version/kernels/linux/
KERNEL_MODULES=`cat  $SCRIPT_DIRECTORY/MODULES`
  for  KERNELMODULE  in  $KERNEL_MODULES;  do
    if  spell_installed $KERNELMODULE;  then
      cast  $KERNELMODULE;
    fi
  done
/bin/rm  -f  /usr/sbin/sgl.install
# end

or words to that effect...

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