On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 12:43:00AM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: > Hi guys, > > A new and very exciting release of util-linux is imminent. Even though > we only have an -rc1 so far, I thought it might be worthwhile to put > it out there so people can try it out (in case we want anything fixed > before the final release):
Sweet! It was my feeling that we should not throw this in testing, but I'm really glad you're making it available. > I enabled libmount support in mount, but this will probably be > reverted before the final release unless we have good reason to > believe it to be safe. To my knowledge, we're still waiting on providers of mount helpers (samba and NFS in particular) to rewrite their helpers to use libmount for parsing /proc/self/mountinfo rather than /etc/mtab. > Major changes: > > - agetty gets most of the features from mingetty. > - dmesg gets lots of new filtering capabilities > - mountpoint moves here from sysvinit (we probably have to manually > remove it from the sysvinit package). I've not enabled mountpoint in util-linux-git, but I include it in the build for myself. Its a drop-in replacement, with a few extra, but minor bells and whistles. I'd be in favor of juggling this when the time comes. d
