On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Jonathan Marsden wrote:
> That could be. Jacques, do the uninstall/install scripts inside the
> RPM actually run Linuxconf with i/o redirected to the console? That
> could be rather dangerous when installing it (rpm -uvh ...) remotely
> <grin>!
Yes, this is what it does. It executes a script called
/usr/lib/linuxconf/DIST/scripts/setmodules.sh. I have redirect to the
console when I do the "linuxconf --setmod", but for unknown reasons,
linuxconf installation was failing to enable some module and there were
not easy way to see the error message. There should not be any.
I will (obviously) change that so error messages (which should not happen
during an install) are redirect more properly. the problem arises because
those error message are produced by some code expecting to be used in
interactive mode, which is not the case.
> I'm concerned because this sounds like a sufficiently messy problem to
> get many people who encounter it very confused... so (to my way of
> thinking) if we can discover how it happened and prevent others having
> to suffer it, that would be worthwhile.
> OTOH, maybe I'm just paranoid and Jeroen is the only person in the
> universe that this will ever happen to!?
For sure I will change that. I was tracking a problem that only happened
at install time. I mean, at linux install time. Installing linuxconf
during the basic installation of the system. Anyway, I know how to fix
that cleanly. Hope for the best in the next release.
I will also consider using the new RPM trigger feature instead of this
setmodules.sh. To be investigated....
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