On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 10:46:07AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > While I agree that forking upstream is not necessarily the right thing > to do, allow me to ask some things just so I understand things > better... > > Do I understand you correctly that an empty configuration file in /etc > will override its 'full' equivalent in /usr? I.e., just an empty file > full of comments saying "this is what you can do with this file" will > break some things?
> If so, are there some things in udev which intrinsically depend on that > behaviour? I can give an example of this one. Placing an empty 75-persistent-net-generator.rules in /etc/udev/rules.d is the recommended way to prevent udev from allocating your network devices to fixed static MAC addresses (something it otherwise does which is the bane of a virtual machine admin's life, and which makes things generally harder when you want to help non-Linux people in swapping network cards over). Nick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120127124040.ga32...@leverton.org
