Re: [Setup-tool-hackers] New port: Slackware 8

[Chema Celorio <chema ximian com>]

On 20 Jul 2001 01:01:59 -0500, Hans Petter Jansson wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 05:49:03PM -0300, Alexandre Hautequest wrote:
> 
> > Hi all.
> > 
> > I've made a quick, dirty but working patch for xst work in slack8 systems. I
> > think it can be easily (is this word right?) ported to older 7.x versions. The
> > tools that are working are:
> > 
> > - boot admin
> > - disks admin
> > - memory admin
> > - shares admin
> > - time admin (do not accept ntp config, even with ntp installed)
> > - users admin
> > 
> > However, it isn't well tested -- at least works for me --, so i'm putting the
> > patch in this url -- http://www.fesppr.br/~hquest/xst.slack8.gz -- and i ask you
> > to take a look at changes and see if is really working.
> 
> I think this is a worthwhile patch - although it doesn't implement any
> parsing specific to Slackware, at least it adds the Slackware distro test and
> lets the tools that ought to work, run on Slackware. We can provide this
> without any gurantees. Looks like the likelihood of this introducing any

I agree, it can go in but without any guarantes for users. If make sure
this is clear i don't see a problem with it (i have not looked at the
patch but i am basing it on what hpj says about not implementing new
parsing rutines)

reagards,
Chema