On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 8:42 PM, Dave Reisner <d@falconindy.com> wrote:

Other thoughts: If we build this with --enable-libmount-mount, we can do away with /etc/mtab and make it a symlink to /proc/self/mounts. It is, however, marked as experimental in the release notes.

Hi, how does the --enable-libmount-mount option make it possible to symlink /etc/mtab to /proc/self/mounts? Sounds a little too good to be true. --Kaiting. -- Kiwis and Limes: http://kaitocracy.blogspot.com/

On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 08:42:30PM -0500, Dave Reisner wrote:

Attached is a changelog and a PKGBUILD for the recently released util-linux 2.19. Changes I've made to the PKGBUILD:

- name change: the project is once again called util-linux. I've updated the conflicts accordingly, and removed the ancient reference to linux32. I think its worth keeping the versioned conflict with e2fsprogs. - remove install scriptlet: this info file is no longer provided - use autogen.sh script instead of manually invoking autotools - remove --enable-rdev flag. this has been non-existant since 2.17 - no need to rm stuff in package() -- these files are no longer part of util-linux

Other thoughts: If we build this with --enable-libmount-mount, we can do away with /etc/mtab and make it a symlink to /proc/self/mounts. It is, however, marked as experimental in the release notes.

I've been running the -git version of util-linux for about a month now, and have had no problems with low level functionality e.g. booting or mounting.

thanks, dave

Minor amendment to my own PKGBUILD -- the HAVE_SLN and ADD_RAW flags to make are no longer necessary either (in both build and package). And the unmentioned errata: 2.19 provides the functionality needed by systemd for proper fsck operation. dave