[Pm-utils] pm-utils 1.2.2 released

[Victor Lowther]

On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 21:43 -0500, Robby Workman wrote:
> On Sun, 05 Oct 2008 21:28:42 -0500
> Victor Lowther <victor.lowther at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > 1.2.2 Release Announcement
> >       * Numerous bugfixes to actually make all the stuff that should
> >         have worked in 1.2.1 really work. Thanks, Michael Biebl. 
> >               * Don't try to make a release and soothe an infant at
> > the same time. 
> >       * Document the 1.2.1 updates in the pm-action manpage. 
> >       * Save autogenerated .fdi file
> >         to /etc/hal/fdi/information/99local-pm-utils-quirks.fdi
> > instead of in /tmp.
> > 
> > As usual, you can download the latest release of pm-utils from
> > http://pm-utils.freedesktop.org.
> 
> 
> Outstanding! :-)  I'm happy to see the quirks stuff integrated...

Thank you.

> In the functions file, you mention modularizing the service
> stop/restart bits, and I *think* that's about the only thing left
> causing a problem for us.  Did you have any ideas in mind on how you
> want to implement that?  

Man, it has been over a decade since I used Slackware -- I honestly
woudn't even know where to begin.

> Maybe test for /etc/$distro-{release,version}
> as appropriate and go from there?  Also, I'm not sure if there's a
> good way to address this, or if it's even relevant for the cases where
> it applies, but some of our init scripts don't contain 'status' checks
> and/or don't return "running" when they do... 

Well, if you want to post your ideas in the form of a patch set to the
pm-utils mailing list, we can hash things out from there.

> -RW 
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Victor Lowther
Ubuntu Certified Professional