On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 04:02:19AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 06:59:40PM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote: > > > > Problems should be reported upstream where apropriate, not to assign blame, > > but so the upstream author knows about it and can fix it for all users of that > > piece of software > > and let boot-floppies be broken for who knows how many monthes/years > while upstream thinks about fixing it?
No reason not to both report the problem upstream *and* work-around it. > mount -t auto is a huge random element which is just ASKING for bugs > and random failures, critical failures, to appear in boot-floppies any > at time. I don't think anyone actually *is* advocating changing dbootstrap to use mount -t auto. There was a discussion (during which you provided the answer to my question) which moved off b-f and onto fixing a nasty defect in busybox. So, thank you for answering my question. Regards, Mark. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
