Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4237 mails)

[Larry I Smith <larry.i.smith@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Anders Johansson wrote:
> On Friday 13 August 2004 06:18, Larry I Smith wrote:
>
> > Well, I guess my machine works differently than yours.
>
>
> You're really going to make me prove this, aren't you
>
>
> > If you copy the entire "handle splash screen" block to
> > a standalone script and set 'splash="auto"' to mimic
> > 'mkinitrd', and set 'vgascan="./test.txt"' instead of
> > '/boot/grub/menu.lst', and add 'echo $vga' just before
> > the 'case' statement, then given this './test.txt' file:
> >
> >     vga=0x31a
> >     0xffe
> >     vga=791
> >     0xdda
> >     vga=123
> >     vga=0xabc
> >     vga=nba
> >     795
> >
> > the script will echo:
> >
> >     0x31a
> >     791
> >     123
> >     0xabc
>
>
> No it won't. Count spaces too. There's some other bug there that I can't quite 
> see at the moment, but to illustrate the point, try this in your test.txt
>
> a vga=0x31a b
> a 0xffe b
> a vga=791 b
> a 0xdda b
> a vga=123 b
> a vga=0xabc b
> a vga=nba b
> a 795 b
>
> The output will be
>
> 0x31a b
> a
> 791 b
> a
> 123 b
> 0xabc b
>
> I'm too tired to see why the matching is off
>
>
> > This pattern (ignoring the spaces added for readability):
> >
> >     regexp1 \(regexp2\) \| \(regexp3\)
> >
> > will match regexp1 followed by regexp2
> > -or- regexp1 followed by regexp3.
> > The 'or' operator matches either of the
> > 2 regexps enclosed in parens, but regexp1
> > must always be matched.
>
>
> wrong
>
> rest of mail ignored

That's unfriendly....

>

Yes, I know about the other bug.  It's always been there
(since mkinitrd v1.0 perhaps), and I don't feel inclined
to fix it if SuSE doesn't.  It is benign; it merely causes
un-necessary, but harmless, invocations of 'hwinfo' in the
default case.

Enough already.  Ok.

Regards,
Larry