On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 11:44:33AM +0100, Holger Macht wrote:
> On Tue 15. Nov - 10:19:00, Holger Macht wrote:
> > On Tue 15. Nov - 04:38:57, Michael Biebl wrote:
> [...]
> > > 
> > > 20.) [0.9.25/0.10.19] on_ac_power binary: name clash with powermgmt_base
> > > package. I don't know if this package exist in SuSE. For Debian I don't
> > > install on_ac_power from powersaved but add a Run-Dependency to
> > > powermgmt_base. I'm not sure if it has the same interface/output. How
> > > does on_ac_power have to behave?
> > 
> > Usage: on_ac_power [-q]
> > 
> >               returns 0 if on AC power or unable to determine ac state
> >               returns 1 if on battery power
> >               -q: quiet mode
> > 
> > We did not know that there is a name clash. I will rename it. As far as I
> > can see, it is used only at one point in helper_functions.
> 
> How does your on_ac_power from powermgmt_base behave? Does it return the
> same information? Maybe we add a configure switch to not install our own
> on_ac_power.
 
Prints nothing to stdout.
exit status:
0 System is on AC power
1 System is not on AC power
255 State could not be determined

> > 
> > > 
> > > 21.) [0.9.25/0.10.19] function keyword in init script is a bashism. Do
> > > you really need bash specific features? Otherwise it would be good to
> > > use #!/bin/sh in script header and check the scripts with
> > > "checkbashisms". That way you can replace the default shell with
> > > something lighter like dash.
> > 
> > This would IMO be also good. But I'm not sure how much work this will
> > cause. Stefan, can you estimate if there are many bash specific features
> > in our scripts?
> 
> But you will need bash for our powersave scripts anyway. So it would not
> help much if the init script is plain sh and your scripts won't work.

Do you need special bash specific features for the powersave scripts in
@prefix@/lib/powersave? If not it would be a good idea imho to switch
them to /bin/sh to make powersave more system agnostic.

Cheers,
Michael

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