[gentoo-catalyst] Re: mounts changes

[W. Trevor King]

On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 06:54:40PM -0800, Brian Dolbec wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-12-28 at 19:52 -0800, W. Trevor King wrote:
> > After Douglas Freed talked me off the devtmpfs ledge on
> > #gentoo-releng, my current suggested mount changes are:
> >
> >   -t:
> >     proc
> >   --rbind:
> >     sys
> >     dev
> >     portdir
> >     port_logdir
> >     port_tmpdir
> >     kerncache
> >     ccache
> >     icecream
> >   drop:
> >     devpts (now that we --rbind /dev)
> >     distdir (now that we --rbind portdir)
> >     packagedir (now that we --rbind portdir)
> >
> > For distdir/packagedir, I'd be find if the source defaulted to None
> > (meaning “don't mount anything”) but could be configured to a path
> > (meaning “--rbind this after you've --rbind-mounted portdir”).
>
> No, we can't drop distdir and packagedir.  The default locations for
> those are waiting for the catalyst changes to be completed.  That is
> the reason I got started rewriting catalyst a year ago.  Those 2
> directories are being relocated OUT of the tree.  Like they should
> have been all along.

If they're moving out of portdir, it makes sense to mount them by
default.  I'm fine with that.  And I'm looking forward to ConfigParser
spec files with sections like:

  [mounts]
  icecream = no
  ubuntu_shm = yes

  [mount source]
  portdir = /home/wking/src/portage
  port_logdir = /home/wking/src/portage-logs
  ubuntu_shm = /run/shm

  [mount targets]
  ubuntu_shm = /run/shm

And to chaining spec files so that I can share basic stuff like this
between all my stages…  Hopefully soon :).

Cheers,
Trevor

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