[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Processed: Re: Bug#494001: debian-installer: /etc/mtab must be a symlink to /proc/mounts with linux >= 2.6.26

[Roger Leigh]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:14:54PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Roger Leigh wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 05:38:38PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > > Are there other parts of Squeeze that would malfunction with Linux kernels
> > > older than 2.6.26 ?
> > > 
> > > The version check is pretty much a good idea for safety reasons, I think it
> > > would be better to just leave it in, and we can get rid of it for Squeeze+1.
> > 
> > Agreed.  I've attached a new patch with a version check.  I've now
> > tested the patch by installing the package, and it correctly updates
> > the symlink, and also preserves it if already a symlink.  The only
> > corner case we have here is if the admin already deliberately
> > symlinked it somewhere else--we won't link it to /proc/mounts in
> > this case (do we want to trample on the admins changes in this
> > case?).
> > 
> > I used dpkg --compare-versions, which I hope is OK for kernel revisions.
> 
> The more I think about it, the less I like this way of doing things.
> 
> You have to adjust to the running kernel, at every boot.  It is *normal* to
> boot on kernel x.y.z, then go back to x.y-1.z, etc.

BTW, if you don't agree with the rationale in my previous mail, let
me know and I'll redo the patch to do the version check in mtab.sh.
The overall concensus on #debian-devel was to just kill it, though.


Regards,
Roger

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