While I have not found anywhere in d-i where these files are executed rather than sourced, we ran into a bug during debcamp where they were not being executed without the executable bit set (it was / could not be traced down to find out why). This is why they were made executable.
This was when using the floppy install, I believe. On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 22:37, Bastian Blank wrote: > mckinstry resently changed sourced files to be executable. i revert that > change and will revert any commit from him in rootskel in future as he > seems not to be able to see if his changes breaks anything. > > bastian -- Alastair McKinstry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key fingerprint = 9E64 E714 8E08 81F9 F3DC 1020 FA8E 3790 9051 38F4 He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. - --Thomas Paine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]