gpm (woody)

[Martin_J Carter]

Saith Chad Walstrom <chad at ima.umn.edu> 2001-11-26 17:46:15:

>On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 05:59:55PM +0100, Ingo Herz wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm trying to get gpm installed with fai. postinstall gives an endless
>> loop showing the common configuration. As I want to copy gpm.conf in
>> place by script after installation there is no need to configure gpm.
>> 
>> Any hints?
>
>Yep. ;-)  In a ../hooks/instsoft.CLASS file, where CLASS is the class in
>which gpm is installed, you need to do a "mkdivert /usr/sbin/gpmconfig"
>to push the gpm configuration out of the way.  Remember to remove this
>diversion in a ../hooks/final.CLASS file.

Oh *that*'s how to do it properly :-) .... When I had exactly similar problems,
I solved it by hand-adding "touch /etc/gpm.conf" to prepare_apt(), which
happens to work in this particular case.

Thanks for the enlightenment,



        MaJoC
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Dr M J Carter
Physics and Astronomy
University of Nottingham
E-mail: Martin.J.Carter at nottingham.ac.uk