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 -- Luk Claes - http://people.debian.org/~luk - GPG key 1024D/9B7C328D Fingerprint: D5AF 25FB 316B 53BB 08E7 F999 E544 DE07 9B7C 328D
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