On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 17:59:55 -0500, Joe Menola wrote: > Can you give an example of *any* situation that would make updating > fstab sensible? > Should never even be considered or an option, IMO. > Important etc files should be placed in .example form and the user > warned that editting is required. > Etc-update has always been the thorn in Gentoo. Again, IMO.
I've always felt that fstab, along with a couple of others, should not be in baselayout, since it should never be "upgraded". There was a patch for dispatch-conf that allowed you to "freeze" some files so it would never even offer to update them, but it hasn't been updated for nearly two years and doesn't work with more recent versions. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68618 -- Neil Bothwick Celery is not food. It is a member of the plywood family.
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