Re: m68k boot-floppies

[Sven LUTHER <luther@debian.org>]

On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 09:12:26AM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > Well, it does not seem to work like this. Who knows whats going on in the
> > keymap code?
> 
> Sven mentioned a problem with the keymap code that he said he fixed in
> CVS. It's not about bmap vs. bmp but about an additional path component in
> the keymaps.tgz archive I think. The error message is bogus. 
> 
>  
> >         sprintf(prtbuf,
> >                 "zcat /etc/keymaps.tgz | tar -xOf - %s/%s.bmap | loadkmap",
> >                                                           ^^^^
> >                 prefix, choices[rs].tag);
> > #ifdef _TESTING_
> >         problemBox(prtbuf,"Test Box");
> > #else
> >         if ( execlog(prtbuf, LOG_INFO) != 0 ) {
> >           vaproblemBox(_("Keyboard load error"), 
> >                        _("Error loading the keymap %s/%s.bmp from /etc/keymaps.tgz"),
> >                                                          ^^^
> > 
> > Now which is the correct name, bmp or bmap? And which should keymaps.sh
> 
> .bmap, that's what the zcat command asks for. The .bmp in the error
> message is bogus. Change the error message, and look for Sven's message on
> that subject.

Well changing the error message is not so easy, as it is localized, so you
would have to change it also on every language ...

also did you fix the prefix stuff in kbdconfig.c ? see the apus case as
example ...

Friendly,

Sven LUTHER