[Pbuilder-maint] Should pbuilder create /etc/mtab

[Matt Kraai]

On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 09:18:11AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > > I'm not sure what the FHS means by "if the corresponding subsystem is
> > > installed".
> > > 
> > > Should pbuilder create /etc/mtab?
> > 
> > /etc/mtab would be one of the things that the system will
> > create/clean-up in one of the boot processes, so 
> > I think pbuilder should be the one to cover up, yes.
> > 
> > I think adding a fake entry, or a symbollic link
> > to /proc/self/mounts should work, but 
> > since it's inside chroot, the contents of 
> > /etc/mtab would be rather difficult to maintain.
> 
> 
> Hmm... I think ln -s will fail if it's already there; 
> and we have set -e; so pbuilder will fail.
> It's probably going to fail if you do
> 	 pbuilder login --save-after-login
> and
> 	 pbuilder login 
> again.
> It'll probably need protection with
> 	 || true

Oh, I didn't think of that problem.  How about using -f?

-- 
Matt
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