Bug#710709: debootstrap: consider creating (dangling) /etc/mtab symlink

2019-04-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2019-05-01 at 05:01 +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: > control: tags -1 +patch > > revised patch > > > From 55c21c166959a93b961c572d5f366d35d054ce24 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Hideki Yamane > Date: Wed, 1 May 2019 04:24:43 +0900 > Subject: [PATCH] create symlink from /proc/self/mounts

Bug#710709: debootstrap: consider creating (dangling) /etc/mtab symlink

2019-04-30 Thread Tianon Gravi
On Tue, 30 Apr 2019 at 13:03, Hideki Yamane wrote: > + if [ ! -f "$TARGET/etc/mtab" ]; then > + if [ -L "$TARGET/proc/self" ]; then > + cd "$TARGET/etc" && ln -s ../proc/self/mounts > mtab > + elif [ -f

Bug#710709: debootstrap: consider creating (dangling) /etc/mtab symlink

2019-04-30 Thread Hideki Yamane
control: tags -1 +patch revised patch >From 55c21c166959a93b961c572d5f366d35d054ce24 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hideki Yamane Date: Wed, 1 May 2019 04:24:43 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] create symlink from /proc/self/mounts to /etc/mtab With old kernel version, there is /proc/mounts instead of

Bug#710709: debootstrap: consider creating (dangling) /etc/mtab symlink

2013-06-01 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.52 Severity: wishlist Hi. Perhaps it would make sense if: /etc/mtab - /proc/mounts was created by debootstrap as a dangling symlink. Seems not to be worse than not having mtab at all, and when one bind mounts /proc to the chroot, than it works out of the box.