On Friday 19 November 2004 19:30, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 14:38 -0300, Luis Diaz wrote:
> > hi, im new in the list, im luis from argentina,
> > i send this mail again because the first was to tony, there is
> > somthing wrong with the reply here :S
> >
> >
> > not providing an fstab at all would make some ppl crazy trying to
> > rememmber the syntaxis of the file, also an script to make one wont be
> > bad idea, after all there is a genkernel, why not a genfstab
>
> Ask and you shall receive...
>
> http://evvl.rustedhalo.net/software/gentoo/gen-fstab/gen-fstab-0.1
>
> Now, what it could really use is a *bunch* more testing.
>
> And really, would it be that hard to
> "cp /usr/share/doc/baselayout-1.9.4-r6/fstab.example /etc/fstab" before
> running nano -w fstab?

The ebuild can do that in pkg_postinst, and the user never needs to notice.
Paul

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