From: duty@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU (Duty Programmer) Subject: Warning: Re: [ANNOUNCE] poeigl-1.7 and admutil-1.4 available Date: 7 Nov 1992 09:35:30 +1100
I uploaded the new poeigl and admutils packages the other day,
and hit a few snags. I'm running 0.98.3 (with the urgent patch).
Apart from having to comment out some conflicting definitions
in admutils (trivial), everything compiled nicely. However, it
seems to me that the installation process could be improved here.
I would think that most people would be, like myself, upgrading
rather than installing from scratch. I know i may be flamed for
this, and yes, i do use "make -n install" before doing a *real*
install, but i guess i didn't look closely enough at the output,
because running "make install" will trash your /etc/inittab and
/etc/shells files.
As i run getty_ps, the form for inittab is different to that used with
other gettys, and the result was that i couldn't reboot the system!
(Thank heavens for hlu's bootable rootdisk!)
It seems to me there should be a "make upgrade" or maybe
"make Install" for a full installation.
Also, "make install" spews out error messages about already existing
files when trying to make the links to "halt", &c, although this is,
of course, harmless.
One more thing: at the end of the install, there's a
"ln -s /dev/tty1 /dev/console", which is surely incorrect ... ?! My
/dev/console is /dev/tty0 (not tty1 which is my first VT!)
rab
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