On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 10:22:31AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > 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: But even /var being mounted locally is not sufficient for modules.conf. You may have multiple SCSI hosts in a machine, and /var may be on a drive attached to one that's loaded as a module after boot. It almost seems necessary to me that /var-local exist on all systems, if this solution is going to be entertained. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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