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[Thomas Orgis <thomas-forum AT orgis.org>]

Hi,

I just got bitten by an util-linux update breaking my login. Seems like this 
is http://www.sourcemage.org/issues/110 and there is code in FINAL dealing 
with this:

if [ "${VERSION:0:4}" == "2.20" ] && [ "${OLD_SPELL_VERSION:0:4}" == "2.19" 
]; then
  message "New version of util-linux needs to update /etc/inittab ..." &&
  cp $INSTALL_ROOT/etc/inittab $INSTALL_ROOT/etc/inittab-$(date 
+'%Y%m%d%H%M') &&
  sed -i "s:/dev/tty:tty:" $INSTALL_ROOT/etc/inittab &&
  message "Updated"
fi &&

Now, of course I broke this by doing the update too late, jumping from 2.19 
to 2.21. So I have two questions about this:

1. Was the intention to delete the FINAL code when updating to 2.21? Because 
now it is dead meat right there.
2. I don't really like the sed line there ... it doesn't check if there is 
actually agetty in the line it works on. There are other getty programs.

So ... what's the intention here? Just remove the code as the update to 2.20 
is history?


Alrighty then,

Thomas


PS: I want to add that I really, really am angry at util-linux folks for not 
just supporting /dev paths anyway. What's so hard about this?

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