edgy->feisty cdrom mountpoint

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Fri Apr 6 04:15:14 BST 2007


On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 10:40:49AM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 05:18:26PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > In that case I guess the upgrade-manager needs to rewrite it. I can't 
> > see any way to guarantee the correctness of the results[1], but for the 
> > (massively) common case just moving it to /dev/cdrom should be fine.
> 
> So long as we only make this change if the existing entry points to a
> nonexistent or nonsensical device, I think it could only improve things.

We wouldn't know whether it's going to point to a sensible device until 
after the system has been rebooted into the new kernel - not all 
hardware will be migrated to libata.

(Is there something up with the lists? I only just got this, though it's 
dated last month)

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org



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