On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 07:15:36PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
> > The file is not intended to be edited. It is generated from
> > other files. It really doesn't belong in /etc.
> > Why not put it in /var, where it belongs?
> Because /var may not be mounted early enough during system boot.
We could always ask a debconf question about it...
(Seriously, we could. "Is /var mounted locally?" with a low priority,
and a default answer based on grep'ing /etc/fstab, followed by a question
about an alternative location that needs to be looked at by packages
that run early. Something like:
/etc/
foo -> /var/lib/managed-etc/etc-foo
serial.conf -> /var-local/etc-serial.conf
network/
ifstate -> /var-local/etc-network-ifstate
/var/lib/managed-etc/
etc-foo
/var-local/
etc-network-ifstate
etc-serial.conf
eg.)
Cheers,
aj
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