[squeak-dev] [ANN] Squeak 5.1 Code Freeze -- Trunk still closed; first release candidate(s) available

Fabio Niephaus lists at fniephaus.com
Fri Aug 19 22:11:51 UTC 2016


On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 11:31 PM tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:

>
> > On 19-08-2016, at 12:41 PM, Fabio Niephaus <lists at fniephaus.com> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for the bug reports. I've fixed the regex bug and found a way to
> ensure "find" ignores dot files.
>
> Excellent.
>
> > But why do you think ensure_conf_file needs to depend upon the kernel
> level?
>
> Because the issue was fixed in the kernel some time ago. Unfortunately I
> couldn’t tell you exactly when, but the Pi stopped needing the file
> addition around 18 months ago. That’s around the time the kernel was bumped
> up to v 4 I think. Whether it is any sort of problem to have such a file
> when it isn’t required… I don’t know. It’s certainly less alarming for any
> user if the script doesn’t demand their superuser password!
>

Can someone shed some light on this or do some more digging? When exactly
do we need a squeak.conf? Any other ideas how to deal with this?

Fabio


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> tim
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> tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
> Oxymorons: Good grief
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