Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Bugs in upgrade-config.

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

> upgrade-config seems to work fine on a single CPU machine, but fails
> every time on a SMP box.  I tried it on two different SMP boxes.
> Right after upgrade-config completes, it prompts for the user to enter
> the runlevel, and then the system dies (no processes running).
>
> Heiko, At the end of upgrade-config, you added something like:
>
>   cat newconfig/etc/inittab | sed .... > newconfig/etc/inittab
>
> I suspected that a SMP box was wiping out inittab before sed got to do
> it's thing, and sure enough.  This works fine:

Interesting effect....

>   sed ... tmp/ISO/cdtree/sbin/upgrade-config > newconfig/etc/inittab.new
>   mv -f newconfig/etc/inittab.new newconfig/etc/inittab
>
> I committed the change to 1.1.  I don't know if it code is in 1.0, so
> I'll let you take care of that.

It's only in 1.1, because there are some changes to the init system which
need to get upgraded.

> Second bug:
>
> upgrade-config seems to always select /etc/init.d/* files that have
> changed to be copied over by default.  They shouldn't be selected IMO.
>
> Maybe because older installations didn't have the date on those files
> set to 1980?  Or why?  Should I manually exclude them, except for
> firewall.rules?

Yes I think this is a good solution.

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Regards
  Heiko Zuerker
  http://www.devil-linux.org