Santiago Vila wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Luk Claes wrote:
> 
>> When installing a Custom Debian Distribution I want to have etc/issue
>> mention the name of it...
> 
> This is already supported: Since base-files is free software, you can
> create your own modified version which says "Foo" instead of "Debian"
> in /etc/issue. So: what's the problem?

You miss the point that a CDD is part of Debian, so it has to follow
policy... and uses the packages in Debian proper...

> A simple "rgrep Debian /etc/*" show a lot of files, are you going to
> ask that all of them become non-conffiles-which-are-created-in-postinst
> just because you don't want to make derived works of packages
> containing them?

No, it are only some of them. Note also that making it a non-conffile is
only one solution, others might be a debconf question, include a program
that can change etc/issue...

Cheers

Luk

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