On 3/14/2011 12:44 AM, DJ Lucas wrote: > On 03/14/2011 12:03 AM, Nathan Coulson wrote: >> > Yes, please! Another set of eyes and additional brain power is always > welcome! You should still have commit privs so feel free to help > yourself. The current 'stable' boot scripts are the remnants after we > ripped out the i18n additions. Though they are stable, they still > contain a lot of cruft such as boot_mesg which is largely unneeded. I > wound up doing a complete rewrite of rc and a single conditional > source of the configuration files in lsb-v3. IOW, at the cost of > possibly faster conditional logic, they only get sourced by the script > if running outside of rc in the lsb-v3 directory. I honestly don't > remember what the 'stty sane' issue was caused by, but I have never > been able to reproduce it since and saw no reason to source the files > in every single sub-shell. BTW, Dan's initd-tools has moved. He is > currently hosting them in his home directory on freedesktop.org. > boot_mesg was from me. It has long since been unneeded. I was attempting to provide a way to change how the boot messages were displayed on the screen. It can be pulled out at any time.
I think any improvements in the boot scripts, link management and lsb compliance are all good items to v7. James -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
