On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 08:34:21PM +0100, Eric Lavarde wrote: > Package: switchconf > Version: 0.0.5.1-1 > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch > > > Hello again, > > I've developed a small init script for switchconf which allows to > switch the configuration at boot time. In order to do this you just > need to add a kernel option 'switchconf=<config>', e.g. to lilo.conf > or grub's menu.lst; and the init script will call switchconf with > <config> as parameter. > > As an example, I have now the following in /boot/grub/menu.lst: > > title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-4-686 (WORK) > root (hd0,4) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-686 root=/dev/hda5 ro switchconf=work > initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-4-686 > savedefault > > title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-4-686 (HOME) > root (hd0,4) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-686 root=/dev/hda5 ro switchconf=home > initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-4-686 > savedefault > > The switchconf file shall be installed as /etc/init.d/switchconf and > linked to /etc/rcS.d/S37switchconf. I chose 37 because it's just > after 36 ;-) and 36 is the level where the local file systems are > mounted, i.e. there is no risk that switchconf tries to install > files to non-mounted file systems, and you can still manipulate the > network configuration. > > Cheers, Eric > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 4.0 > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 > Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > > -- no debconf information
Thank you for your patch. On the next weeks I should release a new
version with your enhancement, but I will only try to send to Debian
after etch release.
José Calhariz
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