Re: 2.1.6 install OK except for X
On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 10:22:59AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Feb 1999 21:36:44 +0000, Ian Redfern <redferni@logica.com> said:
[...]
> > It installed very easily and with no real problems. The following
> > are minor issues:
>
> > 1) The boot disk doesn't announce its version number (2.1.6).
>
> Agree, it should.
Fixed in my sources for 2.1.7.
> > 2) The boot disk date is 01/30/99 (on the release notes screen) -
> > could this be 1999-01-30 please, or at least have a four-digit year?
>
> Agree, it should.
The date on the boot disk is the output of "date +%x", which in turn is
the output of strftime((out, out_length, "%x", time). %x outputs the
date using the proper format for the locale selected. For example, for
LANG=C it uses mm/dd/yy, for LANG=es it uses dd/mm/yy. As one of my goals
for slink was i18n, (there are several translations already), I'm not
quite happy with the idea of using a hardcoded format...
What about submitting a bug against glibc asking for "strftime" to
output a four digit year?
> > 3) The PCMCIA script (/etc/pcmcia/network ?) gives errors about
> > fgrep and ifuser not found, and also said "card services release
> > does not match". Nevertheless, everything installed perfectly.
>
> I reported this too to the debian-boot list.
About fgrep, it's not on the rescue floppy (and there aren't 75 KB left to
put it in). As we install sed from the drivers disk before configuring
PCMCIA, would it be enough if we "emulate" fgrep using:
R=$1 ; shift ; sed /$R/P -n "$@"
? (We've had that before, to emulate plain grep).
About ifuser, it'll be there on boot-floppies 2.1.7 (on the drivers
disk too).
About "card services release does not match". I don't know what does that
mean. Brian?
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Enrique Zanardi ezanardi@ull.es
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