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[Sergey A Lipnevich <sergeyli AT pisem.net>]

Looks like another install queue. How about this a special attribute, 
"recast on init". Kernel's POST_INSTALL or whatever would simply add 
spells to sorcery install queue with this attribute (using colon ":" as 
separator, e.g.), and sorcery.sh would cast only those that have this 
set. No extra files, and an easy way for dialog-based `sorcery' to 
manage this.

--Sergey.

nealbirch wrote:

> nealbirch wrote:
>
> > Eric Sandall wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
>
>
> I was thinking on this on the way home from work and maybe this could 
> actually be used in this way:
>
> Instead of having kernel POST_INSTALL re-cast  installed kernel 
> dependent spells, export the names to /usr/sbin/sgl.install. this 
> would require changing one line in the POST_INSTALL.
> from:
>
> cast $KERNEL_MODULE;
>
> to:
>
> echo $KERNEL_MODULE >>/usr/sbin/sgl.install;
>
> (It might be smart to check if the file sgl.install already exist and 
> remove it if it does.)
>
> We rewrite /etc/init.d/sorcery.sh and "ln -s" it to be the last thing 
> evoked in /etc/rc3.d and /etc/rc5.d.
>
> Rewritten something like this:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> # /usr/bin/sgl.install
> # reinstall packages that add their own modules
> # from list generated after kernel is cast
>
> KERNEL_MODULE=`cat /usr/sbin/sgl.install`
>
> for spell in $KERNEL_MODULE; do
>     cast $spell
> done
>
> rm -f /usr/sbin/sgl.install
> depmod -a
> echo "appropriate message"
> #end
>
> Any thoughts on this?