On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 11:29:41PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 09:20:41PM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > > > powerpc-utils should still be fixed, that diversion needs to go away. > > > > File a bug, I guess (oops, master's down). That doesn't prevent other > > packages from having conffiles that want replacement does it? > > i did right before master died, and its back now btw. i think dan > maintains powerpc-utils now but its still showing up as belonging to espy.... I suppose that means Dan hasn't uploaded a new version yet? I also filed a bug with a patch because powerpc-utils doesn't build on woody. > > Feel free to jump on it. Maybe it'd be simpler to write a script and > > execute it? > > > > #!/bin/sh > > set -e > > ofdev=`ofpath %s`0, rootdevice 2>&1 | logger -t ofpath > > nvsetenv boot-device $ofdev 2>&1 | logger -t nvsetenv > > > > What do you think? > > um well you can't do the %s thing much in shell scripts ;-) Yeah, well that's what comes of switching between languages. Back when I spent a lot of time writing Fortran, I remember the compiler not liking semi-colons at the end of the line. :-) Maybe we can think of it as pseudo-code since everyone knew what I meant. Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <stephen@marenka.net>
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