[Buildd-tools-devel] Bug#395062: Bug#427047: Not found on recent version or svn.

[Roger Leigh]

On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 11:14:03PM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote:
> Raúl Sánchez Siles <rasasi78 at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> >   Hello:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> >   You said that the patch is commited on svn as of 08 Jul 2007, but
> > there have been 2 releases since then 1.1.5-1 and 1.1.5-1.1, and
> > also checked the svn repository but the patch doesn't seem to be
> > applied.
> >
> >   I would expect it on bin/schroot/setup dir.
> 
> The patch I applied was to enable a general mechanism for allowing
> user customisation of the setup scripts.  This is in the current
> release.  The generic bit is the "script-config" option (default in
> /etc/schroot/script-defaults.  This file gets sourced by the setup
> scripts to modify their behaviour.  You could add an FSTAB option here
> for 10mount to use.
> 
> The next step now involves using this general mechanism for allowing
> custom mounts.  This has not yet been added--I'm still not sure of the
> best approach here, though reading a separate file with the list of
> mounts in it in the format of /etc/fstab is probably the best way to
> go.  However, there is of course the issue of parsing the file format.
> I think a C++ $libexecdir/schroot-mount wrapper calling setmntent()
> and getmntent(), then calling mount(1) with the appropriate options
> for each mount in turn is the most portable approach here.  Otherwise,
> we can't portably read things like embedded spaces and escapes without
> platform-specific knowledge.

Just FYI, I added a schroot-mount tool to bin/schroot-mount.  It's
adapted from schroot-listmounts, and does not work yet (it's a
direct copy+search&replace), but will once I've added the
setmntent/getmntent bits.


Regards,
Roger

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