On Jan 19, Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is very very bad, as policy says the conffile mechanism should > only be used when there is a default which may be used by everybody. The default entries look reasonably generic to me.
> My /etc/networks was like this: > > localnet 158.49.16.0 > > and dpkg, while upgrading, suggests that I replace such file by this one: > > default 0.0.0.0 > loopback 127.0.0.0 > link-local 169.254.0.0 This does not mean that the default entries are wrong with you, just that you would like to add your own network to them. > There is also a conflict of interest with debian-installer, > who created this file. *If* d-i really creates /etc/networks then we actually have a problem, but I cannot find it on a newly-installed etch system. Can somebody authoritatively confirm or deny this? BTW, you also had an opportunity to make your views known when I asked about this on [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ciao, Marco
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