Re: [ALPHA RELEASE] module-init-tools 0.9-alpha

[Rusty Russell]

In message <[e-mail]> you write:
> I just built and installed 0.9-beta.  First it tried to install into 
> /usr/local/sbin which is pretty useless here.  Fix this with --prefix=
> and tried again.  This time it put things in /sbin as expected, but did
> not rename the old files with a .old suffix.  Should this still happen?
> If not, what happened with backwards compat?

First line of the README:

READ INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY, OTHERWISE YOU MAY DESTROY YOUR OLD UTILS!

Reinstall your old modutils, then read the README.

There's a "check-destroy-old" target in Makefile.am, I'm just trying
to figure out how to get autoconf to run it before the install target.

You're probably thinking I should fix this ASAP, and I think you're
right 8)

Rusty.
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