Re: About using Linuxconf
On Tue, 24 Dec 1996, Shaya Potter wrote:
>
> Since, we agree at least that it would be good to include linuxconf in
> debian, if not having it be standard. What do we do with a user who
> wants to run it. Is he going to have to make all his own drop in files,
> or should the drop in files be included in the main packages, but this
> will cause them only to be used if linuxconf is installed. It shouldn't
> increase the size of the package and they should be pretty easy to write.
>
Is it possible to write "empty" dropin files? I mean just
comments with examples? It would also be very nice to have a
utility to create dropin files from the standard config/startup
stuff (this would be different for each system element under
linuxconf control of course). It would be even better to have a
utility that could convert dropin files back to "conventional"
style control/config/startup files. Perhaps this could be a
separate package? linixconf-utils?
I'd be interested in working on such a utility with you if bourne
shell or perl would be sufficient. I don't know enough about it
to say whether or not we could create a generalized tool for this
or if it would need to handle each "dropin" explicitly. The
former is preferred :-)
Let me know what you think.
Thanks
Richard G. Roberto
richr@bear.com
011-81-3-3437-7967 - Tokyo, Japan
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