[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#542953: sysvinit: fixes for GNU/kFreeBSD

[Roger Leigh]

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 03:00:52PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> Since insserv is enabled by default, it is not possible to do GNU/kFreeBSD
> specific initialisation in a dedicated script and ensure it is done at 
> the right moment due to dependencies issue. This is especially true for
> mtab.sh, which makes the system no bootable if /etc/mtab has not been yet
> changed to a symlink, by mounting an empty tmpfs over /dev.
> 
> The patch below fixes the problem by having different initialisation on 
> Linux and GNU/kFreeBSD. In case the systems is unknown, it switches to 
> doing nothing by default, which is probaby the safest option. It also 
> correctly detects available filesystem on GNU/kFreeBSD.

Hi Aurelien,

Is this patch still required for kFreeBSD?  I notice that we don't
currently carry code for mounting linsysfs or fdescfs, but
mount-functions.sh does contain special-casing for linprocfs and
nullfs.  So support for kFreeBSD-specific filesystem variants
could be added there.  Does /etc/init.d/rc still need the linprocfs
special-case or is this now handled by mountkernfs?  If startpar still
requires /proc, then probably not, but I don't understand why this
doesn't break on Linux (without initramfs) if this is the case, since
it won't have /proc mounted either.

If the patch is still required, please could you remake it against
current git, since this is now too outdated to work.


Thanks,
Roger

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