Merge branch 'upstream', fai 5.4

[automated-distro-installer] / fai / config / scripts / DEBIAN / 40-misc

diff --git a/fai/config/scripts/DEBIAN/40-misc b/fai/config/scripts/DEBIAN/40-misc
index 78773f35458e6f79ed797d1522600efdece768fb..e160cbb06176200ab54f4723db70b9425bb3df67 100755 (executable)
--- a/fai/config/scripts/DEBIAN/40-misc
+++ b/fai/config/scripts/DEBIAN/40-misc
@@ -3,6 +3,22 @@
 # (c) Thomas Lange, 2001-2016, lange@debian.org
 # (c) Michael Goetze, 2010-2011, mgoetze@mgoetze.net
 
+
+# on ubuntu 16.04 which didn't run this script, some things which didn't
+# apply:
+# /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/fai didn't exist,
+# machine-id was already setup.
+
+# on that system and a debian stretch system, after reboot,
+# some things done here don't seem to persist:
+# some thin/etc/mtab is symlink somewhere else,
+# and mailname is $HOSTNAME.lan
+
+# the adjtime thing is to support changing the system clock
+# from representing UTC (the default) to localtime (windows default).
+
+# afaik, the only useful thing here for me is setting /etc/hostname
+
 error=0; trap 'error=$(($?>$error?$?:$error))' ERR # save maximum error code
 
 # a list of modules which are loaded at boot time