Am Montag, den 07.09.2009, 13:30 +0200 schrieb Vincent Danjean: > Gabor Gombas wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 03:03:40PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: > > > >> Robert filed already after the upload of grub-legacy a RC bug so it > >> doestn't migrate after the usual 10 days to testing. > >> > >> Note that we only Suggests: os-prober and not Recommend: it like Ubuntu > >> does because of 491872 > >> So if anyone want to help that we Recommend it again, then help the > >> os-prober maintainers to fix that bug. > > > > I don't know the specifics, but wouldn't it be possible for os-prober to > > create its own private mount name space (see clone(2), CLONE_NEWNS), > > and do the probing inside that name space? That way the desktop > > environments would not be able to intercept it. > > Please, take care with auto mounting of most partitions: > some of my serveur are Xen or kvm host. And some of their partitions > (mostly LVs) are used by running guest. These partitions MUST NOT be > mounted on the host. I even change /etc/lvm/lvm.conf so that PV > for guests are not detected (and activated) on the host. >
There's already a report open on os-prober to make it really read-only #417407 IIRC Colin Watson already thought in an Ubuntu bug report about implementing a blacklist for os-prober. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
