Shawn Walker wrote:
> On 09/09/11 16:18, Danek Duvall wrote:
> >In order to fix the issue that "pkg verify" fails verification on libc on
> >x86 (and in order to avoid the more extensive changes that allow us to
> >discover mountpoints on the fly), we need to label files which are
> >mountpoints as such. There is a corresponding change to ON to put
> >"mountpoint=true" on /lib/libc.so.1 for x86. The changes to the packaging
> >system are almost as simple:
> >
> > 18903 support for mountpoint labeling
>
> I think this is right, although I'd add a comment above the is_mtpt =
> ... saying it exists for libc.so.1 so it's immediately obvious.
# This is a generic mechanism, but only used for libc on
# x86, where the "best" version of libc is lofs-mounted
# on the canonical path, foiling the standard verify
# checks.
> There's also a question as to whether this is our intended long-term
> fix (which I doubt).
It may be part of it -- it'd be nice to know whether a file is expected to
be a mountpoint or not, regardless of whether we can detect it and check
underneath it.
Thanks,
Danek
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