[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#687399: sysvinit.postinst fails under debootstrap --variant=fakechroot when /dev/initctl exists

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On 09/12/2012 05:30 PM, Roger Leigh wrote:
> We should probably wrap all of the restart logic (except the inittab
> stuff) in ischroot checks.  Messing with the host's /dev is not
> worth risking.  There was a reason why we did it this way though; it
> wasn't unintentional.  I'll have to remember the reasoning, since I
> don't want to break something else by accident.  Possibly vservers/lxc
> or some other chroot-like thing.

yep, i figured that was the case, but i don't remember the reasoning any
more than you do :)  perhaps digging through some revision control logs?

> However, why is the host's /dev accessible when bootstrapping--it
> certainly shouldn't be bind mounted.  Is this something which
> fakechroot is doing?

debootstrap's fakechroot variant uses a symlink to pseudo-bind-mount the
host's /dev/, iiuc.

hth,


	--dkg

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