[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Adding swapon/off to Jakub's Load-Plugin applet - deb-package

[From: Armin M. Warda]

  Hi,

if you are crazy enough to try my changes, that nobody besides 
me has tested yet, and that could ruin your device, you can 
download and install the modified Load-Plugin applet her:

http://www.arminwarda.mynetcologne.de/load-plugin_0.2.5-1_arm.deb

You have been warned!

  Armin.

On Thursday 23 February 2006 23:00, Armin M. Warda wrote:
>   Hi,
>
> attached you find three patches for Jakub's Load-Plugin applet.
> I applied these changes to the source code downloaded from:
>
> http://koti.welho.com/jpavelek/tmp/770/load-plugin_0.2.5-1.tar.gz
>
> My code-changes are split into three incremental steps to make it
> easier to understand (and improve ;-) them:
>
> - patch1 adds a 'swapfile' configuration string to the settings
> menu. - patch2 makes all configuration settings persistent via
> gconf. - patch3 adds the swapon/off menu-entry and logic.
>
> The Load-Plugin runs as 'user', swapon and swapoff need 'root',
> thus you have to add the following line to /etc/sudoers manually:
> user ALL = NOPASSWD: /sbin/swapon *, /sbin/swapoff *
>
> Hopefully my changes are picked up, cleaned up, tested, and make it
> into the next main release.
>
> (Btw., I dropped auto-discovery of active swaps, because I think
> there is no need to auto-activate a swap on reboot via /etc/rc2.d/
> anymore, when swapon/off is just one click away...)
>
>   Armin.
>
> P.S.: With 'dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot' - how can I make sure the
> produced shared object is 'stripped' before packaging occurs?

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