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Harm Geerts posted <200511122034.40523.harmgeerts@××××.nl>, excerpted |
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below, on Sat, 12 Nov 2005 20:34:40 +0100: |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/sys-apps/util-linux/util-linux-2.12i-r1.ebuild?rev=1.11&view=markup |
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> Yes, it has been removed. |
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> The comment in the the bug report talks about "Ancient Cruft" :) |
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Bug report? Not @ viewcvs. Besides, the man page calls it "Ancient |
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Cruft" too, but it's still USEFUL cruft! |
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Just the other day, I used it to see what I'm actually compiling into the |
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kernel these days for video mode. I run a patch (applied automatically |
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by a script I have that verifies the gpg sigs, moves the tarball and sig |
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file from my download dir to my kernel tarball dir, unpacks it, changes |
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the /usr/src/linux symlink, applies a couple useful patches, mounts |
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/boot so my current config is available, runs make oldconfig, and |
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unmounts /boot, all with one command, a second script builds and installs |
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the kernel) to change the kernel default, so I don't have to append it to |
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the kernel command line, and I /could/ have looked up the patch, but it |
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was easier to run vidmode on my current kernel to see what it was. |
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Oh, well, it's not a serious issue, just something useful to have around |
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on occasion. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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