From: 320095285153-0001@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger)
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] issues with installing a new kernel
Date: Tue Feb 6 20:53:02 2001 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A80C06F.31AE8083@gottinger.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20010206204225.C1393@cvs.gentoo.org
Pete Gavin wrote:
> 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.
>
Puh, happy to hear :-)
achim
>
> Pete
>
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-06 10:48 [gentoo-dev] issues with installing a new kernel Pete Gavin
2001-02-06 11:25 ` drobbins
2001-02-06 19:22 ` Achim Gottinger
2001-02-06 20:10 ` Pete Gavin
2001-02-06 20:37 ` Achim Gottinger
2001-02-06 20:43 ` Pete Gavin
2001-02-06 20:53 ` Achim Gottinger [this message]
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