Submit list for new spells

["Eric Sandall" <eric AT sandall.us>]

> On Monday 23 September 2002 05:22 pm, nealbirch wrote:
>>
>> Most of the spells affected seem to be in the utils group, I submitted
>> a couple of bugs on them already and was waiting for a reply. A couple
>> of others, like cups and alsa, are going to be real pains, since the
>> freaking "make install" puts the scripts in place, playing bloody hell
>> with my own plans for world domination, I tell you.
>>
>> I kinda figured out a way to automate this for a working system,
>> excepting figuring out the module being used by a given nic. Any easy
>> way to find that?
>
>
> I was going to ask you about that.  Had you planned on having a cups
> script  installed whether cups is installed or not?
>
> If you'll look at the BUILD file you'll notice that I have already
> worked  around the "make install" problem.  It would be no big deal to
> leave the  Makefile patch and remove the symlink configuration.  I'd
> like to know soon,  however, 'cause there is a bug out on that and I was
> going to move most of it  to a CONFIGURE file.  If you're doing the
> install of the init script, it'll  save me having to redo that part.
> :^)
>
> On a slightly related note, I use metalog and not sysklogd.  How will it
>  affect my system if I have an init.d script installed for a program
> that is  not installed (same w/cups)?
>
>
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> Jason Flatt
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Perhaps we can have the scripts check to see if their related spells are
installed before running?  Do this at the beginning before anything as
done and all you've wasted is the startup cost of a script.  :)

As for detecting what NIC they run...that's a tough one.  Perhaps we could
use one of those autodection tools we've been talking about lately?

-One of Four
a.k.a. sandalle

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