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Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 22:42:43 -0700
From: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
To: Dax Kelson <dax@gurulabs.com>
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Subject: Re: Filesystem Capabilities in 2.6?
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On Sat Nov 02, 2002 at 10:37:48PM -0700, Dax Kelson wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 22:31, Erik Andersen wrote:
> > On Sat Nov 02, 2002 at 09:04:07PM -0700, Dax Kelson wrote:
> > >
> > > 
> > > Any thoughts on how /usr/bin/(rpm|dpkg) copes with setting up the binding
> > > when installing a package?
> > 
> > postint script
> 
> Sure, but editing /etc/fstab from postint is messy, potentially
> dangerous, and could possibly collide with someone doing a manual edit
> of /etc/fstab.
> 
> Maybe we need a /etc/fstab.d/ directory and teach /bin/mount about it.

Or have an /etc/fstab.d/ directory plus have an update-fstab
script that collates the entries in that directory and stuffs the
result into /etc/fstab, and have update-fstab called from the postint
script.

 -Erik

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