On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:14:54PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Roger Leigh wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 05:38:38PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > Are there other parts of Squeeze that would malfunction with Linux kernels > > > older than 2.6.26 ? > > > > > > The version check is pretty much a good idea for safety reasons, I think > > > it > > > would be better to just leave it in, and we can get rid of it for > > > Squeeze+1. > > > > Agreed. I've attached a new patch with a version check. I've now > > tested the patch by installing the package, and it correctly updates > > the symlink, and also preserves it if already a symlink. The only > > corner case we have here is if the admin already deliberately > > symlinked it somewhere else--we won't link it to /proc/mounts in > > this case (do we want to trample on the admins changes in this > > case?). > > > > I used dpkg --compare-versions, which I hope is OK for kernel revisions. > > The more I think about it, the less I like this way of doing things. > > You have to adjust to the running kernel, at every boot. It is *normal* to > boot on kernel x.y.z, then go back to x.y-1.z, etc.
BTW, if you don't agree with the rationale in my previous mail, let me know and I'll redo the patch to do the version check in mtab.sh. The overall concensus on #debian-devel was to just kill it, though. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. _______________________________________________ Pkg-sysvinit-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-sysvinit-devel
