On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 09:32:40PM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote: > 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.
Actually, /proc/self/mounts would be preserved; any symlink into /proc is considered acceptable. Anything else would be changed. -- .''`. 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/20111213213430.gp17...@codelibre.net
