initramfs-tools discussion - fai package for Ubuntu 8.10 (both server and client)

[Adrian Gibanel Lopez]

> diff -urN original/debian/changelog modificado/debian/changelog
> --- original/debian/changelog	2008-10-01 17:02:39.000000000 +0200
> +++ modificado/debian/changelog	2009-01-05 17:56:48.000000000 +0100
> @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
> +initramfs-tools (0.92bubuntu17) intrepid; urgency=low
> +
> +  * Adapt initramfs-tools so that Fully Automatic Installation serves
an Ubuntu 8.10 ok.
Any improvement for my English?
> +
> + -- Adrian Gibanel <adrian.gibanel.lopez at gmail.com>  Wed, 03 Jan 2009
01:50:37 +0100
> +
>  initramfs-tools (0.92bubuntu15) intrepid; urgency=low
>
>    [ Dan Munckton ]
> diff -urN original/init modificado/init
> --- original/init	2008-08-14 00:10:09.000000000 +0200
> +++ modificado/init	2008-12-30 19:16:51.000000000 +0100
> @@ -197,8 +197,8 @@
>  [ "$quiet" != "y" ] && log_end_msg
>
>  # Move virtual filesystems over to the real filesystem
> -mount -n -o move /sys ${rootmnt}/sys
> -mount -n -o move /proc ${rootmnt}/proc
> +mount -n --move /sys ${rootmnt}/sys || mount -n -o move /sys
${rootmnt}/sys
> +mount -n --move /proc ${rootmnt}/proc || mount -n -o move /proc
${rootmnt}/proc
This is the eternal problem about -o option (old mount versions) and
--option (new mount versions). As I have already said the elegant solution
might be to modify ubuntu's busybox's mount command which I do not know
how.

>
>  # Check init bootarg
>  if [ -n "${init}" ] && [ ! -x "${rootmnt}${init}" ]; then
> diff -urN original/scripts/local modificado/scripts/local
> --- original/scripts/local	2008-07-29 08:27:53.000000000 +0200
> +++ modificado/scripts/local	2008-12-30 19:43:57.000000000 +0100
> @@ -152,7 +152,7 @@
>  		fi
>
>  		mkdir -p /host
> -		mount -o move ${rootmnt} /host
> +		mount --move ${rootmnt} /host || mount -o move ${rootmnt} /host
Idem.
>
>  		while [ ! -e "/host/${LOOP#/}" ]; do
>  			panic "ALERT!  /host/${LOOP#/} does not exist.  Dropping to a shell!"
> @@ -183,7 +183,7 @@
>  		mount ${roflag} -o loop -t ${FSTYPE} ${LOOPFLAGS} "/host/${LOOP#/}"
${rootmnt}
>
>  		if [ -d ${rootmnt}/host ]; then
> -			mount -o move /host ${rootmnt}/host
> +			mount --move /host ${rootmnt}/host || mount -o move /host
${rootmnt}/host
Idem.
>  		fi
>  	fi
>

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Adrian Gibanel Lopez
Estudiante de Ingenieria de Informatica de Sistemas en la Universitat de
LLeida.
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