Re: developer release 3.1.2

[Jens Müller <jens@unfaehig.de>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian Cox" <apc@agelectronics.co.uk>
To: <debian-beowulf@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 5:55 PM
Subject: Re: developer release 3.1.2


> I'd much rather have a solution which was decided at boot time or
> dynamically. For instance, an init script which dynamically changed
> links in /etc/alternatives. But I do use the current ability to mount
> /etc read-only, so perhaps we could have a new /var/alternatives
> directory for alternatives selected at boot time?
>
Why not decide at start time? Replace the binary by a script which chooses
the correct binary...

Jens