Charles At 06:11 16.03.2004 -0600, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: >Eric Spakman wrote: >>Hello Charles, >> >>>> Files like mount.boot, boot.fstype and /dev/boot are removed (which is >>>great btw), but they are used in some of the lrcfg/lrpkg scripts AFAIK. >>>So maybe some of these scripts needs some changes too. >>>I don't think the Dachstein package backup scripts use these anymore >>>(part of the upgrade to supporting multiple devices), so Bering >>>shouldn't be either. I have verified I can properly backup packages, >>>but I have not made an exhaustive search for anything that might >>>reference the 'boot' files. >>There are some traces of boot.fstype and /dev/boot left in POSIXness.linuxrouter >>(both Dachstein-1.0.2 and Bering). > >I just looked at these, and the use of the boot= kernel command line setting, >boot.fstype and /dev/boot are not real significant in POSIXNESS.linuxrouter. > >The boot= setting and boot.fstype are used as 'defaults' for populating the backdisk >file when manually installing a package after the system has come up (note is is also >possible to optionally specify a backup device when manually installing a package). > >The /dev/boot symlink and boot.fstype are used in the mount.boot procedure (uncalled >by any other POSIXness or lrcfg script), and by the mount.back procedure (as a >fallback if the newer backdisk file is not present). > >There are at least three ways to deal with this: > >1) Remove the references to these files from POSIXNESS.linuxrouter, replacing them >with references to the newer files (and likely get rid of the mount.boot procedure >entirely). > >2) Create the files in linuxrc, using the first PKGPATH= device (instead of the >depricated boot= device).
Sounds reasonable, it certainly is better than boot= >3) Ignore the problem with manually adding packages once the system is up and >running. :) or insert backuptype NONE if not specified at lrpkg -i I looked into linuxrc myself and found that it does not use lrpkg to install packages. It is not a big deal but to me this is not extremely consistent. cheers Erich THINK Püntenstrasse 39 8143 Stallikon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: BC9A 25BC 3954 3BC8 C024 8D8A B7D4 FF9D 05B8 0A16 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
