Bug#340919: hw-detect: /etc/network/devnames.gz accessed as regular file
On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 11:54:47PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> Package: hw-detect
> Version: 1.27
> Severity: important
>
> The file /etc/network/devnames.gz is created at build time as a gzipped
> file. However, at runtime, the file is accessed in several places as if
> it is a regular (uncompressed file).
No, /etc/network/devnames.gz and /etc/network/devnames are used for
different purposes; the former is an input file with a static mapping of
module names to human-readable names, while the latter is an output file
later used by netcfg. (Some human-readable names come from other sources
than the static mapping file.)
However, I agree that the naming is very confusing. I've renamed
devnames.gz to devnames-static.gz to try to reduce the confusion here.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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