Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: converting /etc/mtab to a symlink

2013-10-13 Thread Pacho Ramos
El lun, 14-10-2013 a las 09:58 +0400, Peter Volkov escribió: > В Вс, 13/10/2013 в 14:13 -0700, Matt Turner пишет: > > On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 12:32 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > > > from what I'm seeing, we should look into converting /etc/mtab to a > > > symlink to /proc/self/mounts [1]. > > > Is t

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: converting /etc/mtab to a symlink

2013-10-13 Thread Peter Volkov
В Вс, 13/10/2013 в 14:32 -0500, William Hubbs пишет: > from what I'm seeing, we should look into converting /etc/mtab to a > symlink to /proc/self/mounts [1]. > > Are there any remaining concerns about doing this? The only concern I have how this change affects *BSD or prefix? But yet I failed to

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: converting /etc/mtab to a symlink

2013-10-13 Thread Peter Volkov
В Вс, 13/10/2013 в 14:13 -0700, Matt Turner пишет: > On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 12:32 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > > from what I'm seeing, we should look into converting /etc/mtab to a > > symlink to /proc/self/mounts [1]. > Is the issue with NFS user mounts resolved? (Mentioned > https://wiki.gentoo.

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: converting /etc/mtab to a symlink

2013-10-13 Thread yac
AFAIK this known historical behavior that what you find in `/etc/mtab` are things mounted by mount(8) (if that's what's printed by running just mount). Whereas /proc/mounts is the kernel view on what's mounted. Curiously I don't see any difference on my gentoo box, which I think I should see but

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grab: app-laptop/pommed

2013-10-13 Thread naota
I nolonger have Apple MacBook machine, so that I can't check if it's working fine or not on any machine. Please pick it up. app-laptop/pommed pgpxEqTO_QCBY.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: converting /etc/mtab to a symlink

2013-10-13 Thread Steven J. Long
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 07:38:19AM +0800, Patrick Lauer wrote: > On 10/14/2013 07:29 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 7:21 PM, Patrick Lauer wrote: > >> On 10/14/2013 03:32 AM, William Hubbs wrote: > >>> All, > >>> > >>> from what I'm seeing, we should look into converting /etc/

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: converting /etc/mtab to a symlink

2013-10-13 Thread William Hubbs
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 07:21:47AM +0800, Patrick Lauer wrote: > On 10/14/2013 03:32 AM, William Hubbs wrote: > > All, > > > > from what I'm seeing, we should look into converting /etc/mtab to a > > symlink to /proc/self/mounts [1]. > > > > Are there any remaining concerns about doing this? > >

[gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2013-10-13 23h59 UTC

2013-10-13 Thread Robin H. Johnson
The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed from the tree, for the week ending 2013-10-13 23h59 UTC. Removals: net-irc/ezbounce2013-10-12 12:01:50 pacho app-misc/gpsdrive 2013-10-12 12:02:26 pacho sys-

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: converting /etc/mtab to a symlink

2013-10-13 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Matt Turner wrote: > On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 12:32 PM, William Hubbs wrote: >> All, >> >> from what I'm seeing, we should look into converting /etc/mtab to a >> symlink to /proc/self/mounts [1]. >> >> Are there any remaining concerns about doing this? >> >> If not

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: converting /etc/mtab to a symlink

2013-10-13 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 7:38 PM, Patrick Lauer wrote: > On 10/14/2013 07:29 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 7:21 PM, Patrick Lauer wrote: >>> On 10/14/2013 03:32 AM, William Hubbs wrote: All, from what I'm seeing, we should look into converting /etc/mtab to a >>>

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: converting /etc/mtab to a symlink

2013-10-13 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 7:38 PM, Patrick Lauer wrote: > And the magic trick is to keep "system mounts" like /run out of > /etc/mtab (willful desynchronization) so that umount -a doesn't nuke > them by accident. > > ... why else would you keep such data in two non-synchronized locations?! :D > Sou

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: converting /etc/mtab to a symlink

2013-10-13 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 10/14/2013 07:29 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 7:21 PM, Patrick Lauer wrote: >> On 10/14/2013 03:32 AM, William Hubbs wrote: >>> All, >>> >>> from what I'm seeing, we should look into converting /etc/mtab to a >>> symlink to /proc/self/mounts [1]. >>> >>> Are there any remai

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: converting /etc/mtab to a symlink

2013-10-13 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 7:21 PM, Patrick Lauer wrote: > On 10/14/2013 03:32 AM, William Hubbs wrote: >> All, >> >> from what I'm seeing, we should look into converting /etc/mtab to a >> symlink to /proc/self/mounts [1]. >> >> Are there any remaining concerns about doing this? > > Apart from breaki

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: converting /etc/mtab to a symlink

2013-10-13 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 10/14/2013 03:32 AM, William Hubbs wrote: > All, > > from what I'm seeing, we should look into converting /etc/mtab to a > symlink to /proc/self/mounts [1]. > > Are there any remaining concerns about doing this? Apart from breaking umount -a and some other things? None at all ;) (The breakag

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: converting /etc/mtab to a symlink

2013-10-13 Thread Matt Turner
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 12:32 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > All, > > from what I'm seeing, we should look into converting /etc/mtab to a > symlink to /proc/self/mounts [1]. > > Are there any remaining concerns about doing this? > > If not, it seems like it would be pretty easy to make baselayout crea

[gentoo-dev] rfc: converting /etc/mtab to a symlink

2013-10-13 Thread William Hubbs
All, from what I'm seeing, we should look into converting /etc/mtab to a symlink to /proc/self/mounts [1]. Are there any remaining concerns about doing this? If not, it seems like it would be pretty easy to make baselayout create this symlink in the stages (I'm willing to do this work), but what

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2013-10-13 Thread Sven Eden
Am Samstag, 12. Oktober 2013, 08:45:15 schrieb Pacho Ramos: > Due pebenito retirement: > dev-libs/ustr I've never heard of that package before, but the description sounded interesting. So I went to their site and read what it is about, and it looks like a project that seems to be ideal for my wo