Changeset 1874

Timestamp:

07/08/03 11:06:50 (5 years ago)

Author:

khali

Message:

Add two important notes about the configuration file and dmidecode

after "make install".

Files:

• lm-sensors/trunk/Makefile (modified) (2 diffs)

lm-sensors/trunk/Makefile

@@ -254 +254 @@
-all :: user
-install :: all user_install
+        @echo "*** The depmod command below may generate errors. We are aware of the"
+        @echo "*** problem and are working on a solution. You should ignore them for now."
-ifeq ($(DESTDIR),)
-        -/sbin/depmod -a
@@ -259 +261 @@
-        -/sbin/depmod -a -b $(DESTDIR)
-endif
+        @echo "*** Installation successful!"
+        @echo "*** Important notes:"
+        @echo "*** 1* The libsensors configuration file ($(ETCDIR)/sensors.conf) is never"
+        @echo "***    overwritten by our installation process, so that you won't lose"
+        @echo "***    your personal settings in that file. You still can get our latest"
+        @echo "***    default config file in etc/sensors.conf.eg and manually copy it to"
+        @echo "***    $(ETCDIR)/sensors.conf if you want. You will then want to edit it"
+        @echo "***    to fit your needs again."
+        @echo "*** 2* The dmidecode tool ($(SBINDIR)/dmidecode) is not necessarily"
+        @echo "***    overwritten either, because we don't distribute the latest version."
+        @echo "***    If you know you have an old one (1.7 or earlier), you should copy"
+        @echo "***    our version (prog/detect/dmidecode) to $(SBINDIR)/dmidecode. Our"
+        @echo "***    installation process relies on a simple date comparison to decide"
+        @echo "***    wether or not it should overwrite the file, but the trick may"
+        @echo "***    fail if for any reason you installed an old verion of dmidecode"
+        @echo "***    at a time a newer version was available."
-
-clean::