Re: HELP: two smbfs packages

[David ROCHER <rocher@easynet.fr>]

On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 06:06:08PM -0500, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>    Package smbfs-2.0.2 works for kernels 2.0.x and before. To use smbfs
>    with the 2.1.x and above kernels, the userland utilities in the Samba
>    1.9.18 and later must be used (smbmount and smbumount). So, I do not
>    know how to provide both versions.
> 
> Suggestion: Provide smbmount (for example), both versions, in the
> single smbfs (or samba, whatever) package, naming them smbmount-2.0.x
> and smbmount-2.1.x.  Use alternatives to manage the `smbmount' symlink

or use a wrapper like this:
 -- /usr/bin/smbmount --
#!/bin/sh
if [ `/sbin/kernelversion` = "2.1" ]; then
  /usr/bin/smbmount-2.1 $@
else
  /usr/bin/smbmount-2.0 $@
fi
 -- /usr/bin/smbmount --
which use the right smbmount when running.
-- 
  David Rocher, rocher@mail.dotcom.fr
  Debian GNU/Linux, http://www.debian.org/ 


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