commit: 1b26d547a50e2554483bdbfd288fae75fd76bfa0
Author: William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs <AT> gmail <DOT> com>
AuthorDate: Thu Aug 14 18:50:48 2014 +0000
Commit: William Hubbs <williamh <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
CommitDate: Thu Aug 14 18:50:48 2014 +0000
URL:
http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/openrc.git;a=commit;h=1b26d547
Deprecate the mtab service script
The mtab service script is no longer needed on modern Linux systems, so
we can remove it in 1.0. However, we need to set a deprecation notice
first.
---
FEATURE-REMOVAL-SCHEDULE | 11 +++++++++++
init.d/mtab.in | 10 +++++++---
2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/FEATURE-REMOVAL-SCHEDULE b/FEATURE-REMOVAL-SCHEDULE
index 682bed8..2c05a3e 100644
--- a/FEATURE-REMOVAL-SCHEDULE
+++ b/FEATURE-REMOVAL-SCHEDULE
@@ -59,3 +59,14 @@ Why: Depprecated in favor of executable scripts in
@SYSCONFDIR@/local.d
Who:
---------------------------
+
+What: the mtab service script
+
+When: 1.0
+
+Why: /etc/mtab should be a symbolic link to /proc/self/mounts on modern
+ Linux systems
+
+Who:
+
+---------------------------
diff --git a/init.d/mtab.in b/init.d/mtab.in
index 8e5bc2f..0cd7369 100644
--- a/init.d/mtab.in
+++ b/init.d/mtab.in
@@ -12,12 +12,16 @@ depend()
start()
{
- if [ -L /etc/mtab ]
- then
- einfo "Skipping mtab update (mtab is a symbolic link)"
+ if [ -L /etc/mtab ]; then
return 0
fi
+ ewarn "Please run the following command as root on your system."
+ ewarn
+ ewarn "ln -snf /proc/self/mounts /etc/mtab"
+ ewarn
+ ewarn "The support for updating /etc/mtab as a file is"
+ ewarn "deprecated and will be removed in the future."
ebegin "Updating /etc/mtab"
if ! echo 2>/dev/null >/etc/mtab; then
ewend 1 "/etc/mtab is not updateable"
