specifying directory to save to or load from in speakupconf

William Hubbs w.d.hubbs at gmail.com
Thu Sep 23 13:17:36 EDT 2010


Hi Steve,

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 04:48:22PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:44:13AM -0500, William Hubbs wrote:
> > Speakupconf only saves or loads from /etc/speakup if it is run
> > as root, or ~/.speakup if it is run as a user.  enhancing it to allow a
> > location to be specified might be possible.
> 
> OK, I didn't remember for sure if it was hard coded or if one could
> pass a command line parm.  That change should be easy enough.  What I
> would do is if no parameters are specified, then do the current
> behavior but if a directory is specified, verify its presence and then
> use the parms from there.  I would be glad to make the change if
> people would like. Should I use the standard speakup git archive to
> pull and patch against?

Yes, just use the speakup git repository.  Make sure your clone is up to
date, then make the modification to the speakupconf script in the tools
directory.  Once you have made the changes, use 'git diff' to generate
the patch to send.

William




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