edgy->feisty cdrom mountpoint
Matt Zimmerman
mdz at ubuntu.com
Wed Mar 28 18:40:49 BST 2007
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 05:18:26PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 11:43:10AM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
>
> > I was too, but then looking at the fstab on both machines they both have
> > the physical device name rather than the symlink.
>
> 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.
>
> [1] Think a mixed SCSI/ATA system - we have no guarantees about which
> interface would be preferred in the new kernel
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.
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- mdz
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