[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#494001: Bug#494001: Bug#494001: Minimum kernel requirement for Squeeze

[Kel Modderman]

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.
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