Hi,
scripts/ver_linux uses fdformat to determine the version of util-linux
used on the system. However, on Debian GNU/Linux:
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% fdformat --version
Note: /usr/bin/fdformat is obsolete and is no longer available.
Please use /usr/bin/superformat instead (make sure you have the
fdutils package installed first). Also, there had been some
major changes from version 4.x. Please refer to the documentation.
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Attached is a patch which modifies ver_linux so that it can correctly
determine the util-linux version on Debian (by using /sbin/hwclock if
fdformat fails).
Andreas
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--- linux/scripts/ver_linux.orig Tue Apr 17 15:49:14 2001
+++ linux/scripts/ver_linux Tue Apr 17 15:52:04 2001
@@ -20,7 +20,13 @@
ld -v 2>&1 | awk -F\) '{print $1}' | awk \
'/BFD/{print "binutils ",$NF}'
-fdformat --version | awk -F\- '{print "util-linux ", $NF}'
+ut_vers=`fdformat --version | awk -F\- '{print $NF}'`
+if echo "$ut_vers" | grep -q obsolete
+then
+ # Debian does not ship fdformat
+ ut_vers=`/sbin/hwclock --version | awk -F\- '{print $NF}'`
+fi
+echo "util-linux $ut_vers"
mount --version | awk -F\- '{print "mount ", $NF}'
