Re: update-modules and manually changed /etc/modules.conf
At 0:28 +0200 5/5/02, Daniel Lutz wrote:
>Hello
>
>A user of the autofs package did send a bug report (Bug#145768)
>about problems with a manually changed /etc/modules.conf file.
>The problem is that update-modules fails in the postinst script.
>
>There are two possibilities:
>
>1. Don't catch the error and let the installation of the package
> fail.
>2. Catch the error in the postinst script and inform the user
> about the error.
>
>My favour would be the first possibility, since the Debian system
>assumes that a manually changed /etc/modules.conf file is a
>bad idea. The postinst script of the modutils package tells the user:
>
>------------------------------------------------------------
[big snip]
You probably missed yesterday a mail, it said:
A user should never change the /etc/modules.conf file, as warned at the
beginning of the file. He should create or modify files in
/etc/modutils/ and launch update-modules, which is the good(tm) way.
Don't waste your ( and our ) time on repairing mistakes of an user.
It is better to educate him.
Geert
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