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

[Kel Modderman]

On Tuesday 12 May 2009 04:36:12 Kel Modderman wrote:
> On Saturday 21 March 2009 23:04:00 Roger Leigh wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:10:58PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > > On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Roger Leigh wrote:
> > > > 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.
> > > 
> > > I just need to know WHAT is supposedly to make squeeze incompatible with
> > > the Linux kernel before 2.6.26, to make an informed decision :)
> > 
> > I just saw your reply on -devel.  I'm guessing it's udev; not something
> > I'm totally happy about, but I guess systems using it are the exception
> > nowadays.
> > 
> > I've attached a new patch which removes the version check, but keeps
> > the kernel check intact.  It also removes the conffiles in postrm.
> 
> I updated your patch to remove /etc/init.d/mtab.sh from disk and clean up
> a couple of things (no whitspace change in postrm, unrelated update-rc.d purge
> of hostname.sh in postinst). Please take a look, I'd like to apply it to
> the package vcs.

Also debian/initscripts/etc/init.d/checkfs.sh should not reference mtab in its
LSB info.

Does checkroot.sh need to change at all with respect to what it does to
/etc/mtab?

Thanks, Kel.
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