On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 09:08:10PM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote: > On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 08:54:14PM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote: > > If you have a few minutes to spare, some testing of the packages > > would be appreciated, so make sure there are no corner cases we've > > missed. Upgrading initscripts should result in /etc/mtab being > > switched to a symlink at the next reboot. /lib/init/rw will also > > no longer mount a tmpfs on reboot, though the directory itself will > > need to remain until wheezy+1, due to the upgrade ordering--packages > > migrate after initscripts has run its postinst, requiring its > > continued presence. > > > > I'd be grateful for any feedback. > > You probably want to handle the case where /etc/mtab is a symlink to > /proc/self/mounts as well, since it's equivalent, and I know some people > (read: at least me) have already made that change.
It does--it will switch to /proc/mounts unless /etc/mtab is already a symlink to /proc/mounts. It will therefore correct any symlinks which point to other places as well as the usual case of it being a file. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111213213240.go17...@codelibre.net
