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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