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(initrd.img desymlinkified)</H1> + <B>Colin Guthrie</B> + <A HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20Something%20is%20messed%20up%20in%20theme%20upgrades..%0A%20%28initrd.img%20desymlinkified%29&In-Reply-To=%3C4F7C12D2.7010304%40colin.guthr.ie%3E" + TITLE="[Mageia-dev] Something is messed up in theme upgrades.. (initrd.img desymlinkified)">mageia at colin.guthr.ie + </A><BR> + <I>Wed Apr 4 11:22:26 CEST 2012</I> + <P><UL> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="013872.html">[Mageia-dev] Something is messed up in theme upgrades.. (initrd.img desymlinkified) +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="013884.html">[Mageia-dev] Something is messed up in theme upgrades.. 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Thanks +</I>><i> for noticing this. +</I> +No worries. + +As a followup question, do you think it'll end up regenerating some +initrd's several times? + +e.g. I have two symlinks, initrd.img and initrd-desktop.img both +pointing to the same initrd. + +Will this ultimately get regenerated three times, two of which are +obviously redundant? + +Col + + + +-- + +Colin Guthrie +colin(at)mageia.org +<A HREF="http://colin.guthr.ie/">http://colin.guthr.ie/</A> + +Day Job: + Tribalogic Limited <A HREF="http://www.tribalogic.net/">http://www.tribalogic.net/</A> +Open Source: + Mageia Contributor <A HREF="http://www.mageia.org/">http://www.mageia.org/</A> + PulseAudio Hacker <A HREF="http://www.pulseaudio.org/">http://www.pulseaudio.org/</A> + Trac Hacker <A HREF="http://trac.edgewall.org/">http://trac.edgewall.org/</A> +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="013872.html">[Mageia-dev] Something is messed up in theme upgrades.. 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