[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#633845: initscripts: unupgradeable on vserver

[Adam Borowski]

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 11:36:59AM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 12:22:52PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> > In containers like vserver, even root cannot mount things from the inside,
> > for obvious security reasons.

> IIRC we were explicitly supporting vserver in the postinst prior
> to the switch to ischroot, though I didn't test it myself.  If the
> logic in older versions detects vservers correctly for you and
> ischroot does not, we need to get that logic added to ischroot
> (or back in the postinst if that's the best place).
> 
> Note that 2.88dsf-13.6 was the last version not using ischroot, so
> I would suggest trying out the postinst logic from that version.

The system in question upgraded to and worked with 2.88dsf-13.10 correctly,
it's only upgrading to 2.88dsf-13.11 that fails.

I also deboostrapped a fresh one, it works as well.

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