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Subject: Re: recipe design curiosity: how to best install a package configuration file?
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On Fri, 20 Mar 2020, Adrian Bunk wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 07:04:05AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >...
> >   in this current situation, it turns out that that sample conf file
> > just happens to be appropriate,
> >...
>
> I'd guess you are wrong on that.
>
>   IPv4_interface 192.168.100.100
>   Interface eth2

  ah, i was just going on the recipe append file as it was, which
simply copied that sample file. now i'm even more curious as to what's
going on in the background, as i did not create that append file.

rday