Add two important notes about the configuration file and dmidecode

after "make install".


git-svn-id: http://lm-sensors.org/svn/lm-sensors/trunk@1874 7894878c-1315-0410-8ee3-d5d059ff63e0

Makefile

@@ -253,11 +253,29 @@ user ::
 user_install::
 all :: user
 install :: all user_install
+	@echo "*** The depmod command below may generate errors. We are aware of the"
+	@echo "*** problem and are working on a solution. You should ignore them for now."
 ifeq ($(DESTDIR),)
 	-/sbin/depmod -a
 else
 	-/sbin/depmod -a -b $(DESTDIR)
 endif
+	@echo "*** Installation successful!"
+	@echo "*** Important notes:"
+	@echo "*** 1* The libsensors configuration file ($(ETCDIR)/sensors.conf) is never"
+	@echo "***    overwritten by our installation process, so that you won't lose"
+	@echo "***    your personal settings in that file. You still can get our latest"
+	@echo "***    default config file in etc/sensors.conf.eg and manually copy it to"
+	@echo "***    $(ETCDIR)/sensors.conf if you want. You will then want to edit it"
+	@echo "***    to fit your needs again."
+	@echo "*** 2* The dmidecode tool ($(SBINDIR)/dmidecode) is not necessarily"
+	@echo "***    overwritten either, because we don't distribute the latest version."
+	@echo "***    If you know you have an old one (1.7 or earlier), you should copy"
+	@echo "***    our version (prog/detect/dmidecode) to $(SBINDIR)/dmidecode. Our"
+	@echo "***    installation process relies on a simple date comparison to decide"
+	@echo "***    wether or not it should overwrite the file, but the trick may"
+	@echo "***    fail if for any reason you installed an old verion of dmidecode"
+	@echo "***    at a time a newer version was available."
 
 clean::
 	$(RM) lm_sensors-*