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FS#24162 - Poor grammar in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Brian Recchia (b) - Sunday, 08 May 2011, 03:07 GMT
Last edited by Thomas Bächler (brain0) - Saturday, 14 May 2011, 10:45 GMT
Task Type General Gripe
Category System
Status Closed
Assigned To Thomas Bächler (brain0)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

From mkinitcpio.conf, line 9:

# BINARIES
# This setting includes, into the CPIO image, and additional
# binaries a given user may wish. This is run first, so may
# be used to override the actual binaries used in a given hook.
# (Existing files are NOT overwritten is already added)
# BINARIES are dependancy parsed, so you may safely ignore libraries

I'd propose a correction, but to be honest I'm not entirely sure what it's trying to say past the first sentence.
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Closed by  Thomas Bächler (brain0)
Saturday, 14 May 2011, 10:45 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Eric Belanger (Snowman) - Sunday, 08 May 2011, 04:15 GMT
I think the 'and' in the first sentence should be replaced by 'any'.
Maybe adding a 'it' before the 'may' in 2nd sentence.
Comment by Brian Recchia (b) - Sunday, 08 May 2011, 04:37 GMT
Pardon me, I feel like a dumbass for not realizing there should have been an "it" there on the second sentence like you suggested.

Perhaps something like this is clearer:

# This setting adds any additional, user-defined binaries to the CPIO
# image. This is run first, so it may be used to override the actual
# binaries used in a given hook.


As for "Existing files are NOT overwritten is already added", I have NO clue, whatsoever, as to what that means. I'm very new to Arch, though (first tried it out today after hearing people swear by it for years…) so I might just not know what I'm talking about here.
Comment by Thomas Bächler (brain0) - Sunday, 08 May 2011, 09:37 GMT
Someone actually read the comment. I never did. Please provide a patch with the corrected comment.
Comment by Dimitrios Semitsoglou-Tsiapos (duckgrindrr) - Wednesday, 11 May 2011, 19:21 GMT
Hope my corrections make sense.
Added extra #s in the example section.
   diff (2.4 KiB)
Comment by Thomas Bächler (brain0) - Saturday, 14 May 2011, 10:45 GMT
I would appreciate a proper diff next time. Anyway, fixes applied: https://projects.archlinux.org/mkinitcpio.git/commit/?id=34d985ae0ecdc18223ea7f42b9a4b2bfae657cc7

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