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From: Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o>
To: gentoo-catalyst@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] custom motd gets blanked
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 16:31:12
Message-Id: 44217BAE.6070007@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-catalyst] custom motd gets blanked by Tod Herman
1 Tod Herman wrote:
2 > 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
3 >
4 > Can cheat and change the > to >> in the line from livecdfs-update.sh that is the offender:
5 >
6 > gentoo-release-minimal )
7 > cat /etc/generic.motd.txt /etc/minimal.motd.txt > /etc/motd
8 > sed -i 's:^##GREETING:Welcome to the Gentoo Linux Minimal Installation CD!:' /etc/motd
9 >
10 > Probably should check if custom motd being used and if so skip the Tweaking the MOTD section.
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12 If you're not building a Gentoo release, you probably shouldn't be using the
13 gentoo-release-* types. They do all sorts of stuff that you typically wouldn't
14 want, except on a Gentoo release.
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18 Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project
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Re: [gentoo-catalyst] custom motd gets blanked Tod Herman <todw1fd@×××××.com>