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

[Roger Leigh]

tags 494001 + patch
thanks

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 05:43:28AM +1000, Kel Modderman wrote:
> > Does checkroot.sh need to change at all with respect to what it does to
> > /etc/mtab?
[patch]

I've attached a new patch against the current sources to implement
this.  Note that it only handles migration in one direction, that
it, it will not switch /back/ from a symlink in the absence of
/proc/mounts.  While this could be added, is this a situation we
really need to cater for?

There are no OS checks--this permits kfreebsd support and future
Hurd support.  The logic is in the shell function mtab_migrate
to permit the clean addition of special casing for e.g. Hurd.

This patch, like /dev/shm → /run/shm and /etc/network/ifstate →
/run/network/ifstate, does not preserve symlinks to places other
than /proc/* (the assumption being that symlinks to other files
were hacks to permit read-only root but still being static files).
Such hacks are no longer needed.


Regards,
Roger

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