call summaryBefore to auto configure network, timezone, printers

obscure problems when launching foomatic-configure exhausted problem of missing subdirectories in /etc and /var, create them at startup when they are missing to prevent from future other problems of the kind

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diff --git a/move/collect-directories-to-create.pl b/move/collect-directories-to-create.pl
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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+use strict;
+use MDK::Common;
+
+#- there are programs/packages which fail when the directory
+#- in which they try to write doesn't exist. better collect them
+#- at build time so that drakx startup can create them.
+
+my @list = map { if_(m|^\Q$ARGV[0]\E(.*)$|, $1) } `find $ARGV[0]/{etc,var} -type d`;
+my @final;
+foreach my $e (sort { length($b) <=> length($a) } @list) {
+    any { /^\Q$e\E/ } @final and next;
+    push @final, $e;
+}
+
+print "$_\n" foreach sort @final;