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[Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>]

On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 06:23:52PM -0500, Jeremy Blosser (emrys) wrote:
> On Aug 29, Sergey A. Lipnevich [sergey AT optimaltec.com] wrote:
> > Quoting "Jeremy Blosser (emrys)" <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>:
> > 
> > > I promise this mail has nothing to do with GPG.
> > 
> > Me too :-).
> > 
> > > If you use test grimoire and updated it and recast init.d in the last 24
> > > hours, you may have a non-bootable system.  A call to /usr/bin/grep 
> > > made it
> > > into the init system, which won't work for scripts that are called 
> > > before
> > > /usr is mounted.
> > 
> > Is that what I integrated yesterday? I assumed it was OK because I used 
> > this
> > code for some time and there was no WIP on it.
> > 
> > I'm sorry too. I don't have a separate /usr partition that's why it 
> > worked.
> 
> Yes, it was in that bunch of code.  No one that looked at it noticed,

I looked at it too, but didn't notice -- we'd all had to remember and 
notice that grep was on /usr/bin :)  Failed us all.

That's what test grimoire is for, letting devel code hit the real world 
test :)

> apparently.  I didn't WIP it because I didn't expect it not to work.  I had
> it on systems as well, and they have separate /usr partitions, but I
> apparently missed the reboot test.

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