On Saturday 30 May 2009 20:39:42 Roger Leigh wrote: > > Can you have a good look at [0] for errors please? > > > > [0] > > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-sysvinit-commits/2009-May/001220.html > > It looks fine. The only slight oddity is the slight difference in logic > between checkroot.sh and postinst. In particular, the need for > > touch /etc/mtab > > in checkroot.sh > > This uses: > if [ Linux = "$KERNEL" ] && [ ! -L /etc/mtab ] && [ -f /proc/mounts ] > then > if touch /etc/mtab >/dev/null 2>&1 > then > rm -f /etc/mtab && ln -s /proc/mounts /etc/mtab > else > log_warning_msg "cannot symlink /etc/mtab to > /proc/mounts" > fi > fi > > whereas the initscripts postinst uses: > > if [ "$(uname -s)" = "Linux" ] > then > if [ -f /etc/mtab ] && [ ! -L /etc/mtab ] && [ -f /proc/mounts ] > then > rm -f /etc/mtab && ln -s /proc/mounts /etc/mtab > fi > fi > > I'm guessing here it's to cope with a read-only root on startup that the > postinst doesn't need to care about.
Yeah. Is that odd? Does it need a comment? Thanks, Kel.
