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[Florian Franzmann <siflfran AT hawo.stw.uni-erlangen.de>]

On Sa 2012-04-21 08:36:55 +0200, Thomas Orgis wrote:
> 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?
I don't think the update is history. Our Iso is so old that whenever
someone installs a system from it he has to go throught this update.