Re: fstab update for persistent device names

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

dann frazier <dannf@debian.org> writes:

> On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 07:42:20PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 10:47:00AM -0600, dann frazier wrote:
>> > > We need to decide which arches needs this rewrite now and which value
>> > > should be filed in.
>> > And also, how should we re-write them? Should we just provide
>> > documentation, or also provide a utility to do it?
>> 
>> You don't want to do things manual if you can automate them.
> ...
>> No. Maintainer scripts must not change _any_ conffile.
>
> What is your idea for implementing this?  Creating a utility that
> must be manually executed by the administrator? If so, how will the
> the admin be informed that they need to run it - by causing
> linux-image preinsts to error out if old-style names are detected?

Should be after unpacking so the utility exists already. Or not?

Or should the util be another package?

MfG
        Goswin