forwarded 298915 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170057
retitle 298915 FHS compliance in iPod support -- [0.9]
tags 298915 + upstream
severity 298915 normal
thanks
Hi,
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005, Stephen Touset wrote:
> Debian sarge has been attempting to move to the new FHS standard, where
> /mnt is a directory only intended for temporary mounting over, and
> /media is used to contain various directories for mounting removable
> media.
Stephen, thanks for your report. Indeed, this is the incorrect place
if you consider the FHS.
> I know the ipod support is still extremely experimental and the
> hardcoded directory name will eventually be removed, but it's still
> probably prudent to use /media/ipod for the time being, rather than
> /mnt/ipod.
Better: we should now look in both /media/ipod and /mnt/ipod for the
time being, since users might have setup their fstab to mount the iPod
in /mnt. I am talking with upstream to see how they'd like to handle
that, and I'll try not to diverge too much from the 0.8 branch for now.
On Sat, Mar 12, 2005, Lee Maguire wrote:
> I'd assumed ipod support was broken in rhythmbox before seeing this
> report, so personally I'd consider the severity higher than minor.
>
> This is just to add that the debian package of gtkpod has used /media/ipod
> since December 2004, so it's likely to be used over /mnt/ipod (at least
> for new users) in Debian.
Lee, thanks for your followup. It seems this is a more than minor
issue indeed, but I can only outline that iPod support in the 0.8
series of Rhythmbox is experimental.
Stephen, Lee, I've brought the issue upstream at:
<http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170057>
You might want to subscribe to the upstream discussion from there.
Please note that this issue isn't present at all in the 0.9 series of
Rhythmbox, which uses HAL and GnomeVFS to check all mounted volumes.
Regards,
--
Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Neutral President: I have no strong feelings one way or the other."
