Re: Bug#376925: initramfs-tools: init should say 'Will now load...'!
maximilian attems wrote:
reassign 376925 initscripts
retitle 376925 init shouldn't use first person
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restart
retitle 376925 init-script in initramfs-tools should say 'Will now
load...' not 'I will now load...' nor 'Loading, please wait :-)
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http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=376925
hi maximilian,
On Sat, 08 Jul 2006, curt manucredo (hansycm) wrote:
<snipp confusing first report>
you might want to read chapter 6.5 from the developers reference
->
http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-practices.en.html#s-bpp-config-mgmt
(6.5.2.5) the computer is not a person.
Thank you for kindly pointing at this! But then, ...
"Loading, please wait..." pretty much describes politely what's going on,
the os is _loading_.
...when swap gets mounted and local file-systems, it says: 'Will now
activate swap' and 'Will now mount local file-systems'.
this was my intention for this whishlist-bug! --> '...not...very round...'
well agreed, although once init is called that can no longer happen in
initramfs-tools. Please better research next time the corresponding
package. "Will now" strings are abundant in initscripts as
grep "Will now" -r /etc/init.d/ | egrep 'log_'
easily shows in mountall.sh, checkroot.sh
and once init is called the initramfs-tools business is finished ;)
i don't want to change /etc/init.d/*
as i already said: it is not very round when it says 'Loading, please
wait...'. and when it says 'will now load' it does not mean that it says
'I will now load'. it would be the same as it would say 'I am loading,
please wait', but it does not. it says 'Loading, please wait...' and i
even don't want to wait. why does a computer tell me to wait? :-) i just
want to do other things while it loads!
hmm no patch yet for this issue although it should be trivial to
construct.
egh! there is one. since i cc'ed it to curiosa i don't feel bad about it
to send you a patch applying it with 'patch -p0' to the unpacked
initramfs-tools-0.67.tar.gz found in the repository! But i believe
changing the init-script-file in initramfs-tools-0.67.tar.gz would be
faster! however!
best regards
sorry for not cc!
thanks for everything
yours curt
--
greetings from austria
well, though i think i can't fix that problem, but i believe i can make
a workaround!
*********************
curt manucredo
hansycm@a1.net
i can not sit all the time in front of this stupid thing!
-- a proud debian-user and wannabe-developer
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--- init-old 2006-06-21 23:44:24.000000000 +0200
+++ init 2006-07-10 23:20:12.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
#!/bin/sh
-echo "Loading, please wait..."
+echo "Will now load..."
mkdir /sys
mkdir /proc
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