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[Paul <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>]

Sorcery has problems when already existing files are modified. Other
spells have the same issues. We have only very limited ways of dealing
with this ATM. There a list of file in some file which are not to be
removed. Or whole directories to not track can be added to sorcery.

On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 18:10, Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> My apologies if I missed any discussions on this. I've added a spell for
> "ndiswrapper" kernel module. In casting, it modifies these files:
> /lib/modules/2.4.25/modules.dep
> /lib/modules/2.4.25/modules.generic_string
> /lib/modules/2.4.25/modules.ieee1394map
> /lib/modules/2.4.25/modules.isapnpmap
> /lib/modules/2.4.25/modules.parportmap
> /lib/modules/2.4.25/modules.pcimap
> /lib/modules/2.4.25/modules.pnpbiosmap
> /lib/modules/2.4.25/modules.usbmap
> /lib/modules/2.4.25/pcmcia
> Now, they are also part of "linux" spell install log. If I dispel
> ndiswrapper, these files will be gone, and potentially the kernel will
> not function correctly, right? Is this really a problem and did we ever
> try to solve this it in any way? I don't see any relevant code in other
> kernel modules.
> Thanks,
> 
> Sergey.
> 
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