Hi,
>>"Marcus" == Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:
Marcus> On Mon, Feb 23, 1998 at 09:09:07AM -0500, Branden Robinson
Marcus> wrote:
>> So finally, here's my proposed solution:
>>
>> xtrs should install two zero-length files:
>>
>> /usr/lib/xtrs/model1rom.bin /usr/lib/xtrs/model3rom.bin
>>
>> and flag them as conffiles, so they don't get clobbered during an
>> upgrade.
>>
>> Okay, I will now sit back and wait to see in how many different
>> ways this is a stupid thing to do.
Marcus> I hardly can't believe it!
Marcus> This was my proposal two days ago for that I was flamed to a
Marcus> crisp by Manoj!
Marcus> Manoj... fire... now !
Oh, OK.
Why are you making these conffiles for no good earthly reason?
Think about this in the post inst
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touch /usr/lib/xtrs/model1rom.bin
touch /usr/lib/xtrs/model3rom.bin
chown blah /usr/lib/xtrs/model1rom.bin
chmod beah /usr/lib/xtrs/model1rom.bin
chown blah /usr/lib/xtrs/model3rom.bin
chmod beah /usr/lib/xtrs/model3rom.bin
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No fuss, no muss, no questions, no over write.
If you wan to get fancy and talk to people (only on the first
install)
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ROMFILES='/usr/lib/xtrs/model1rom.bin /usr/lib/xtrs/model3rom.bin'
helptext () {
if [ "X$DONEHELP" != "X" ]; then return ; fi
cat <<EOHELP
I see this is the forst time you are installing $package.
$package needs ROMS to run, unfortunately, because of licencing
reasons, Debian can't provide these ROMS. In liue of real ROMS, I am
creating zero length files with the names:
$ROMFILES
Please replace them with your own real versions in order to
use $package. You can get these ROMS from http://www.somewhere.com/
Please hit return to continue
EOHELP
DONEHELP='YES'
read ans
}
set X $ROMFILES
shift
for file
do
if [ ! -e $file ]; then
touch $file
chown as.df $file
chmod cd $file
helptext
fi
done
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manoj
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