| 1 |
On Friday 19 November 2004 20:47, Chris Barker wrote: |
| 2 |
> Anyway, the reason I got confused was that the fstab that came with the |
| 3 |
> udev package had "BOOT", "ROOT", and "SWAP" in it with NO explanation |
| 4 |
> that those were placeholders. They looked to me like they might be magic |
| 5 |
> names that udev figured out for you. The fact that my system worked |
| 6 |
> reinforced this idea. So: |
| 7 |
|
| 8 |
Actually the manual CLEARLY states that they must be replace. Of course adding |
| 9 |
it to the file itself is not a bad idea. You can however also use partition |
| 10 |
labels and it will work. |
| 11 |
|
| 12 |
> Another thought: Is there a way for portage to tell the difference |
| 13 |
> between an install and an upgrade? and if an upgrade, what version is |
| 14 |
> being upgraded from? In an upgrade, there is no need install a new |
| 15 |
> config file unless the features or syntax of that config file has |
| 16 |
> changed. In this case, I can think of no reason that I would ever have |
| 17 |
> needed a new fstab after upgrading udev, and a BIG reason to keep the |
| 18 |
> old one. It would be nice of portage could figure this out for me and |
| 19 |
> not make me figure it out myself. Indeed, if there has been a change in |
| 20 |
> features or syntax, I'd love to know what those changes are, in some |
| 21 |
> easy to access place. |
| 22 |
|
| 23 |
fstab should never update in any case, or the update should be based on the |
| 24 |
current version. For updating trivial changes automatically, try |
| 25 |
dispatch-conf. It's a lot more sophisticated than etc-update |
| 26 |
|
| 27 |
Paul |
| 28 |
|
| 29 |
-- |
| 30 |
Paul de Vrieze |
| 31 |
Gentoo Developer |
| 32 |
Mail: pauldv@g.o |
| 33 |
Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
Archives