Bug#573252: partman-target: stray /cdrom link useless these days

2010-03-12 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: So after today's changes it will leave /media/cdrom instead of /cdrom. Guess we should remove that dir again in finish_install.d for hd_media installs? We'd need to keep an indicator that the dir was created by base-installer and not by partman. I don't think it

Bug#573252: partman-target: stray /cdrom link useless these days

2010-03-12 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 12 March 2010, Joey Hess wrote: I don't think it particularly matters if there's a stray /media/cdrom. I could always plug in a usb cd drive. OK. Let's give it a try as it is now then. I will uploaded base-installer and apt-setup to start with. Colin, At the risk of invoking your

Bug#573252: partman-target: stray /cdrom link useless these days

2010-03-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 10 March 2010, maximilian attems wrote: applications that still rely on a toplevel /cdrom are likely very buggy and should be kicked. nuke etch compatibility link. Except that D-I itself still uses it :-/ We'll need to change that first... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#573252: partman-target: stray /cdrom link useless these days

2010-03-11 Thread Frans Pop
tag 573252 pending thanks On Thursday 11 March 2010, Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 10 March 2010, maximilian attems wrote: applications that still rely on a toplevel /cdrom are likely very buggy and should be kicked. nuke etch compatibility link. Except that D-I itself still uses it

Bug#573252: partman-target: stray /cdrom link useless these days

2010-03-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 06:09:07PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 11 March 2010, Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 10 March 2010, maximilian attems wrote: applications that still rely on a toplevel /cdrom are likely very buggy and should be kicked. nuke etch compatibility link.

Bug#573252: partman-target: stray /cdrom link useless these days

2010-03-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 11 March 2010, you wrote: /cdrom was only obsoleted in etch by a combination of prayer and wishful thinking. apt-cdrom still relied on it until very recently, when Michael Vogt did some work on it. Hmm. It could be that back then only the automatic unmounting was fixed. I'll

Bug#573252: partman-target: stray /cdrom link useless these days

2010-03-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 11 March 2010, Colin Watson wrote: If you don't bind-mount /target/cdrom in base-installer, how do you ensure that we use the same CD for base installation as was used to boot the installer? You cannot ensure that even if you do bind mount it as the BIOS' idea of what is the first

Bug#573252: partman-target: stray /cdrom link useless these days

2010-03-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 11 March 2010, Frans Pop wrote: No, we no longer bind mount /target/cdrom. We used to bind mount it permanently, but that was changed with the reintroduction of multi-cd support. Instead we always leave it up to apt-cdrom to mount/umount the CD as (and only as long as) needed. Oh,

Bug#573252: partman-target: stray /cdrom link useless these days

2010-03-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 11 March 2010, you wrote: On Thursday 11 March 2010, Frans Pop wrote: No, we no longer bind mount /target/cdrom. We used to bind mount it permanently, but that was changed with the reintroduction of multi-cd support. Instead we always leave it up to apt-cdrom to mount/umount

Bug#573252: partman-target: stray /cdrom link useless these days

2010-03-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 11 March 2010, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 11 March 2010, you wrote: On Thursday 11 March 2010, Frans Pop wrote: No, we no longer bind mount /target/cdrom. We used to bind mount it permanently, but that was changed with the reintroduction of multi-cd support. Instead we

Bug#573252: partman-target: stray /cdrom link useless these days

2010-03-11 Thread maximilian attems
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010, Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 10 March 2010, maximilian attems wrote: applications that still rely on a toplevel /cdrom are likely very buggy and should be kicked. nuke etch compatibility link. Except that D-I itself still uses it :-/ We'll need to change that

Bug#573252: partman-target: stray /cdrom link useless these days

2010-03-11 Thread Joey Hess
I installed the alpha from usb stick, onto a system with no cdrom drive, and a /cdrom directory (not symlink) was left behind. I have not worked out which component is responsible. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#573252: partman-target: stray /cdrom link useless these days

2010-03-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 12 March 2010, Joey Hess wrote: I installed the alpha from usb stick, onto a system with no cdrom drive, and a /cdrom directory (not symlink) was left behind. I have not worked out which component is responsible. /var/lib/dpkg/info/base-files.preinst has: if [ -d /cdrom ]; then

Bug#573252: partman-target: stray /cdrom link useless these days

2010-03-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 12 March 2010, Frans Pop wrote: On Friday 12 March 2010, Joey Hess wrote: I installed the alpha from usb stick, onto a system with no cdrom drive, and a /cdrom directory (not symlink) was left behind. I have not worked out which component is responsible.

Bug#573252: partman-target: stray /cdrom link useless these days

2010-03-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 12 March 2010, Joey Hess wrote: I installed the alpha from usb stick, onto a system with no cdrom drive, and a /cdrom directory (not symlink) was left behind. I have not worked out which component is responsible. Duh. I looked at the code earlier today. It's base-installer of course

Bug#573252: partman-target: stray /cdrom link useless these days

2010-03-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 12 March 2010, Frans Pop wrote: On Friday 12 March 2010, Joey Hess wrote: I installed the alpha from usb stick, onto a system with no cdrom drive, and a /cdrom directory (not symlink) was left behind. I have not worked out which component is responsible. So after today's changes

Bug#573252: partman-target: stray /cdrom link useless these days

2010-03-09 Thread maximilian attems
Package: partman-target Version: 65 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch applications that still rely on a toplevel /cdrom are likely very buggy and should be kicked. nuke etch compatibility link. diff --git a/packages/partman/partman-target/finish.d/fstab_removable_media_entries