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Re: Bug#32230: boot-floppies: Driver Configuration /fs menu - nls-iso8859-2..9 lines are false



Your observation is correct.
The problem is in modconf (in the drivers disk: /usr/sbin/modconf).

        Problems with modconf:

ERROR:

Will only present the first 12 characters in module name
which breaks for theese modules:

        nls_iso8859_1
        nls_iso8859_2
        nls_iso8859_3
        nls_iso8859_4
        nls_iso8859_5
        nls_iso8859_6
        nls_iso8859_7
        nls_iso8859_8
        nls_iso8859_9
        ip_masq_raudio
        ip_masq_cuseeme
        ip_masq_vdolive

They have 13 to 15 characters in their names.

The cause of the problem is that modconf calls whiptail and there do not
seem to be any way to set column widths.

So the suggested fixes would be:

1,	replace whiptail, but then with what?
2,	hack whiptail so you can handle longer keys
3,	rename modules with names longer than 12 chars (not counting the '.o')

Cheers,
/Karl

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On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, [iso-8859-2] Sándor Bárány wrote:

> Package: boot-floppies
> Version: 2.1.4-1998-12-29
> 
> There is a problem in driver configuration/fs:
> 
> in the selection list the names nls-iso8859-n (n= 2..9) all abbreviated to nls-iso8859-_ . If you select the second, third, etc line with RETURN, the long name is
> nls-iso8859-1 at every time. I did not tried out if the selection of these 2-n modules comes right into /etc/modules; all these modules are, however, installed in
> /lib/modules/2-0-36/fs/.
> 
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> Kernel Version: 2.0.36 i386
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