On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 08:17, Jack Coates wrote: > Alright, this is getting old, to the point of distribution change. > > Auto-setup of hardware resources is a fine thing. BUT the OS needs to > detect if I've already done stuff and NOT UNDO IT. > > My VX88 has a memory-stick slot. I mount a memory stick in it under a > hidden directory in my ~ and put my GPG and FPM directories there. When > going through airports and leaving my laptop in customer boardrooms, I > can pop the memory stick out and stick it in my pocket. > > My kernel swap documented in "kernel and alsa issues" has resulted in > the mount point in my ~ being erased and my /etc/fstab line changing > from: > /dev/sda1 /home/jack/.crypto vfat > user,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu,codepage=850,noauto,noexec,sync,umask=0266 1 2 > to: > /dev/sda1 /mnt/memory_card auto > user,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu,codepage=850,noauto,exec 0 0 > > This is uncool behavior, Mandrake devel team. If an fstab entry exists > for the device, PLEASE DO NOT CHANGE IT.
Jack, Where as the intent and purpose behind it is fantastic. I've found things like this happening a little tooooo often. The cure has been rpm -e msec --nodeps. OR a lot of editing of msec. Since for me I oft need to change things run tests, change again. It results in too many msec edits to be practical. I'm not looking for "lessons " from any of the fans of msec and I know that if you have a stable "design" for your laptop it has a purpose and a good one too. But you might consider it and see if it improves things. If it does, then you can make the decision as to whether to edit and keep or put it into urpmi's skip list. James
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