On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Ben Reser wrote: > > 2. Recognizing that "wipe" is a poor name, starting with LAM/MPI 7.1, > > we'll change the primary name of "wipe" to "lamwipe" (we'll update all > > documentation, as well, and mention that "wipe" is formally > > deprecated). The name "wipe" will be a sym link pointing to the name > > "lamwipe" so that backwards compatability will be preserved (for a > > while). Perhaps sometime after that, we can ditch the name "wipe". > > That would definantely help once you drop using the wipe name.
Sounds good. I've opened a bug about this to ensure that we do it by 7.1. > However, I think I have a better solution for now. It would put us a > little ahead of the you guys on renaming but should maintain backwards > compatability. > > 3. Rename wipe in lam-runtime to lamwipe. Rename the wipe command > wipe.wipe. Use the update-alternatives process to provide the wipe > command. Setting lam-runtime's wipe at a higher priority so in the case > where both packages were installed lame-runtime would own the wipe > command. This would avoid your concerns with lam users getting the > secure file deletetion tool on accident. > > Unfortunately this is a Mandrake only solution for the time being, but > would definately stop distlint from emailing me every week about the > issue. Does anyone see an issue with doing this? Since the lam-runtime > maintainer isn't replying should I just go ahead and do it? This sounds like a good plan to me. -- {+} Jeff Squyres {+} [EMAIL PROTECTED] {+} http://www.lam-mpi.org/