Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Dec 2006 20:18:24 +0100 | From | Karel Zak <> | Subject | Re: util-linux: orphan |
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On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 07:39:47PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Wednesday 27 December 2006 19:15, Karel Zak wrote: > > > > On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 03:46:10AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > On Monday 18 December 2006 08:17, Karel Zak wrote: > > > > - remove FS/device detection code > > > > (libblkid from e2fsprogs or libvolumeid is replacement) > > > > > > I saw that the current Fedora already dynamically links /bin/mount > > > against /usr/lib/libblkid.so. > > > > Sorry, but it's nonsense. > > > > $ grep -r %{_root_libdir}/libblkid.so * > > > > devel/e2fsprogs.spec:%{_root_libdir}/libblkid.so.* > > Right, please accept my apologies for spreading confusion about this.
No problem ;-)
> I currently don't have access to the machine that broke, so I could > not check the exact problem, and must have misremembered the bug. > > > > This obviously does not work if /usr is a separate partition that > > > needs to be mounted with /bin/mount. > > > > Yes, I have /usr on a separate partition for many years :-) > > > > > I'd suggest that you make sure that mount always gets statically linked > > > against libblkid to avoid these problems. > > > > It's dynamically linked in many distributions without a problem. > > The problem that I saw was because of selinux going wild. Statically linking
Yes, I remember the bug (or bugs). Fixed now.
> would have avoided the problem for me, but I guess this is just one > more reason for me to disable selinux and be done with it.
Frankly, it wasn't always easy to use SeLinux in previous FC releases, but there is huge progress and I think it's much better in FC6.
Karel
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