Re: [gentoo-dev] issues with installing a new kernel

[Pete Gavin <pete@gentoo.org>]

On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 04:10:53AM +0100, Achim Gottinger wrote:
> > Well, I added a simple check in pkg_preinst in
> > linux-2.4.0.11-r3.ebuild to see if /boot exists in /etc/fstab, and if
> > so, it mounts it, then it will unmount it in pkg_postinst.
> 
> Well, I don't like it if an ebuild script touches my filesystem.
> 
> I use automount here for boot and /boot is a symlink to /misc/boot.
> 
> So this solution does not work for me.
> 
> Since ebuild can run in runlevels other than 1 and linux is a multiuser
> operating system
> such things can messup other users work.
> 
> So such a thing should only run if we are in runlevel 1
> 

You have a point... I didn't think it was a good idea to do this,
since everyone's filesystem setup is pretty much different... I'll
just add a message to it reminding the user to mount /boot.

Pete