Paul TBBle Hampson wrote: > On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 08:47:31PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > Paul TBBle Hampson wrote: > >> The best place for it is prolly /etc/modules, created by > >> debian-installer during the insatll. Rootskel contains the file, and > >> hw-detect populates it. (Or so it seems) > >> > >> So I'd put it as a bug against rootskel, so it can be default > >> installed like 'loop' appears to be... > > > That doesn't seem very appropriate as it would only address the issue on > > newly installed systems, leaving upgraded systems unfixed. > > I'm not sure you can really do much for newly-installed systems... > > I think the ipv6 addresses in /etc/hosts similarly could only be > automatically added on new installs. > > I could be wrong about that though. Yes, which suggests that adding ipv6 to /etc/hosts is not the best solution to this problem. An alternative, for example, would be to have ifup make sure it was loaded before upping an inet6 address. > > (Also, rootskel has nothing at all to do with /etc/modules, and loop is > > not listed in /etc/modules on newly installed systems.) > > Weird. My recently-built-from-etch-installer-server got the loop module > in its /etc/modules, and I didn't put it there. The loop module is added in some cases if you use an encrypted filesystem. -- see shy jo
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