On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 23:21, Tom Gundersen wrote:

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Dave Reisner wrote:

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On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 12:38:11PM -0500, Dave Reisner wrote:

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On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 05:57:51PM +0100, Tom Gundersen wrote:

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Hi guys,

We are finalizing the move to libmonut based mount, paving the way for read-only root, by moving /etc/mtab into the filesystem package. This used to be a dynamic file generated at boot and updated at runtime, but as of the last initscripts package it was simply a symlink to /proc/self/mounts.

This symlink was created at boot (at the same place the old mtab was generated), but this turned out to cause a few problems.

Sadly, moving the symlink to 'filesystem' requires user intervention, which I will write a news item about. The essential message will be:

"Please upgrade the filesystem package using 'pacman -Sf filesystem' in order to overwrite /etc/mtab."

I'd prefer to ask people to rm /etc/mtab and -Su, rather than advertise -f (which has been removed in pacman-git, leaving only --force).

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Please test and signoff, as I'd like to make the move to core rather quickly.

Cheers,

Tom

Gah.. and of course saying that, and then going and doing it -- the missing mtab makes pacman choke on diskspace checking. --force might be the easier option here...

Yeah, I'll make this clear in the news item. --force is always, always, always wrong. Except for this one time, when it is the only solution ;-)

-t

Sorry to interrupt guys but can't this be done in pre_upgrade function in .INSTALL script of the package? Quote: man PKGBUILD pre_install Run right before files are extracted. One argument is passed: new package full version string. pre_upgrade Run right before files are extracted. Two arguments are passed in this order: new package full version string, old package full version string. Regards. Keshav