On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 4:07 PM, Dan Nicholson <nichol...@endlessm.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 10:23 AM, Dan Nicholson <nichol...@endlessm.com> > wrote: > > > > That certainly helps, but it doesn't cover everything since the > > mkdir's and ln's could fail. Those are easier to handle by adding -p > > and -f, respectively, but that's a subtle change in behavior for ln > > relative to the mknod change. In the mknod case, an existing device is > > left as is. In the ln case, it would be forcefully overwritten. > > Attached is a patch to handle all the potentially failing cases. I > tested this by running debootstrap once, wiping everything the target > except /dev, and running debootstrap again. It succeeded. As mentioned > above, an existing device is skipped while the symlinks are forcefully > overwritten. That seems inconsistent, but I'm not sure it matters. I > could easily change the mknod function to forcefully remove, too. > Ping? Patch is pretty straightforward, but I'd be happy to adjust any direction people like.
