/etc/mtab symlink PERMANENTLY mangeled

Orion Poplawski orion at cora.nwra.com
Sat Feb 9 00:00:07 UTC 2013


On 02/08/2013 12:57 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
> would deveopers of core-packages take a look at this?
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=887763#c37
>
> god knows what happens here with the /etc/mtab symlink
> BUT this all did never happen before "the problems with
> /etc/mtab" where "solved" by replace it with a symlink
>
> may i suggest to make nails with heads and fix packages
> that any usage of /etc/mtab is REPLACED with directly
> look at /proc/mounts?
>
>
>

I believe this was a problem with upgrading util-linux with rpm-4.10.2-2 
installed.

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