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Re: fstab update for persistent device names



On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 07:42:20PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > For 4), we could either try and incorporate all config file knowledge
> > in the utility, or provide a hook system by which we make a name map
> > available but each package is responsible for doing its own
> > renaming. The latter would give us a pass on the "don't edit other
> > package's config files" rule.

> No. Maintainer scripts must not change _any_ conffile.

What files are you concerned about here that are conffiles?  I can't think
of a single config file on the system which would reference device names,
and should be a conffile.  (Maybe there are some that /are/ conffiles, but
I'm pretty sure that's a bug.)

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