Re: Bug#2524: problems with base package

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

Dirk Eddelbuettel writes ("Re: Bug#2524: problems with base package"):
>[Carl Streeter? wrote:]
>>[Dirk Eddelbuettel? wrote:]
>>> Why don't we call it /etc/rc.boot/Readme and explain in it what it's
>>> for?
>>  I was thinking that, but I have mixed feelings about an executable
>> called Readme ;) Unless run-parts just ignores things which aren't
>> executable...
> 
> If only I would think before I mailed ;-)
> Anyway, maybe I can save myself by proposing a Readme such as
...
> #!/bin/sh
> # This is an empty file which blurb...

If you call the file READ.ME or some such then run-parts won't run it
because of the . in the filename.

Ian.