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From: "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuilds creating mountpoints
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 22:57:14
Message-Id: 43C04632.1030109@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuilds creating mountpoints by "Petteri Räty"
1 Petteri Räty wrote:
2 > Stefaan wrote:
3 >
4 >>Hi!
5 >>
6 >>I'm having an issue with the openafs-ebuild, and I don't see a
7 >>solution for the moment. I wondered if someone on the list would:
8 >>
9 >>Prerequisite:
10 >>The ebuild needs to create the /afs directory, and remove that same
11 >>directory when it is uninstalled.
12 >>
13 >>The obvious solution seems to do "keepdir", so portage would attempt
14 >>to make the directory and put a .keep file in there. I say attempt,
15 >>because the following problem will occur during an re-merge or
16 >>upgrade, while the mountpoint is in use:
17 >
18 >
19 > Strange that I haven't seen any problems with pmount which does keepdir
20 > for /media.
21 >
22
23 Plaah. Figured out my mistake. Would it be possible to adjust afs
24 utilities to create that directory when needed and delete when done?
25
26 Regards,
27 Petteri

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