Gentoo Archives: gentoo-catalyst

From: Tod Herman <todw1fd@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-catalyst@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] custom motd gets blanked
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 16:49:08
Message-Id: 20060322164831.79249.qmail@web30210.mail.mud.yahoo.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] custom motd gets blanked by Andrew Gaffney
1 and yet I suspect the blanked file wasn't intended. also suspect that much of the "all sorts of stuff" the rest of the scripts do is wanted.
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4 From: Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o>
5 To: gentoo-catalyst@l.g.o
6 Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 11:30:38 AM
7 Subject: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] custom motd gets blanked
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9 Tod Herman wrote:
10 > When building livecd with custom motd, the custom motd gets moved into the build environment correctly, but then get's blanked when the livecdfs-update.sh tries to cat missing generic-motd.txt and minimal-motd.txt files into /etc/motd. Bug entered on bugzilla: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127186
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12 > Can cheat and change the > to >> in the line from livecdfs-update.sh that is the offender:
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14 > gentoo-release-minimal )
15 > cat /etc/generic.motd.txt /etc/minimal.motd.txt > /etc/motd
16 > sed -i 's:^##GREETING:Welcome to the Gentoo Linux Minimal Installation CD!:' /etc/motd
17 >
18 > Probably should check if custom motd being used and if so skip the Tweaking the MOTD section.
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20 If you're not building a Gentoo release, you probably shouldn't be using the
21 gentoo-release-* types. They do all sorts of stuff that you typically wouldn't
22 want, except on a Gentoo release.
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Re: [gentoo-catalyst] custom motd gets blanked Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>