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+config() {
+ NEW="$1"
+ OLD="$(dirname $NEW)/$(basename $NEW .new)"
+ # If there's no config file by that name, mv it over:
+ if [ ! -r $OLD ]; then
+ mv $NEW $OLD
+ elif [ "$(cat $OLD | md5sum)" = "$(cat $NEW | md5sum)" ]; then # toss the redundant copy
+ rm $NEW
+ fi
+ # Otherwise, we leave the .new copy for the admin to consider...
+}
+config etc/modprobe.conf.new
+
+# Retain legacy behavior by tossing a symlink in /etc/modprobe.d/:
+# Note that the plan is to eliminate /etc/modprobe.conf and
+# /etc/modules.conf in the long run, so you may wish to remove the
+# link and move your actual file into /etc/modprobe.d/ if you want
+# to keep it instead of going with smaller chunks in there...
+if [ -r etc/modprobe.conf ]; then
+ ( cd etc/modprobe.d ; ln -s ../modprobe.conf . 2> /dev/null )
+fi
+