Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v4] mount-boot.eclass: Check if /boot is sane, but don't try to mount it.

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Sat, 07 Dec 2019, Ulrich Müller wrote:

> The eclass failed to remount a read-only mounted /boot, because package
> collision sanity checks in recent Portage versions prevented it from
> reaching pkg_preinst() at all. Furthermore, with the "mount-sandbox"
> feature enabled, the mount won't be propagated past pkg_preinst() and
> installed files would end up under the (shadowed) mount point.

> Therefore don't even attempt to mount /boot ourselves, but error out
> if it isn't mounted read/write and ask the user to mount /boot.

> Also clean up and simplify. (For example, awk is a grown-up program
> which doesn't need any help from egrep or sed. :-)

> Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/532264
> See-also: https://bugs.gentoo.org/274130#c5
> Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm@g.o>
> ---
> v3: Exit awk commands on first match.

> v4: Added die statements after awk commands
>     Fixed typo in mount-boot_is_disabled function documentation
>     Reverted renaming of I_KNOW_WHAT_I_AM_DOING variable

Pushed (with one small spelling change in an error message).

Ulrich