Everyone has to start somewhere. And without warnings up front in any kind of documentation to the contrary, people are going to try to take the easiest path to get a desired result. Learning to use the tool correctly, and in a way "sanctioned" by those intimately involved in its creation, isn't exactly easy. Of course, now, having been spanked for my attempts at catalyst glory, i will go back and try and do it all the "right" way. Thanks just the same Chris.
----- Original Message ---- From: Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 1:58:13 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] custom motd gets blanked On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 08:48 -0800, Tod Herman wrote: > 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. Since usage of livecd/motd isn't valid for gentoo-release-* I have instead made it pretty simple. If you're using livecd/motd and gentoo-release-* you will get a warning, and your custom motd will be ignored. I really wish people would *not* use gentoo-release-* when building anything that tries to be different from a Gentoo release. ;] > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Andrew Gaffney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 11:30:38 AM > Subject: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] custom motd gets blanked > > Tod Herman wrote: > > 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 > > > > Can cheat and change the > to >> in the line from livecdfs-update.sh that > > is the offender: > > > > gentoo-release-minimal ) > > cat /etc/generic.motd.txt /etc/minimal.motd.txt > /etc/motd > > sed -i 's:^##GREETING:Welcome to the Gentoo Linux Minimal > > Installation CD!:' /etc/motd > > > > Probably should check if custom motd being used and if so skip the Tweaking > > the MOTD section. > > If you're not building a Gentoo release, you probably shouldn't be using the > gentoo-release-* types. They do all sorts of stuff that you typically > wouldn't > want, except on a Gentoo release. > > -- > Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ > Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
