On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 02:17:04PM +0200, Luca Capello wrote: > The following question is asked at samba-common installation:
> Samba Server
> If your computer gets IP address information from a DHCP server on the
> network, the DHCP server may also provide information about WINS
> servers ("NetBIOS name servers") present on the network. This
> requires a change to your smb.conf file so that DHCP-provided WINS
> settings will automatically be read from /etc/samba/dhcp.conf.
> The dhcp3-client package must be installed to take advantage of this
> feature.
> Modify smb.conf to use WINS settings from DHCP?
> Even if I chose "No", every time the machine is rebooted (or a DHCP
> connection is renewed) an empty /etc/samba/dhcp.conf file is created.
> This is particular annoying given that etckeeper always complains:
> ** etckeeper detected uncommitted changes in /etc prior to apt run
> ** Aborting apt run. Manually commit and restart.
The debconf question has never been intended to govern whether the dhcp hook
script runs, only whether samba makes use of the information. We could
possibly move this file into /run, if that would help.
Doesn't etckeeper have an 'ignore' facility?
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