Bug#502035: busybox-udeb: Add support for LABEL= mounting

[Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>]

tags 502035 + wontfix
thanks

[Replying to rather old bugreport...]

On 13.10.2008 01:34, Andrew Deason wrote:
> Package: busybox-udeb
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch d-i
> 
> I was about to file a wishlist bug against partman with a patch for
> using LABEL= mounting in /etc/fstab during the install process, but
> right now this fails since the installer tries to mount the partitions
> from the same values that are written to /etc/fstab. It uses busybox's
> `mount` to do this, and so fails because busybox-udeb right now isn't
> compiled with support for mounting via labels (or UUIDs).
> 
> Would it be possible to enable mounting via labels? It appears to add
> less than 4k to the busybox x86 udeb binary. Is that acceptable?

I think now when d-i always uses udev which is configured to fill in
/dev/disk/by-label/ and /dev/disk/by-uuid/ directories for all block
devices it finds, this bugreport maybe closed -- it is as easy to
use the "long" paths instead of enabling an (incomplete) volume-id
support in busybox.  What do you think?  In any way, I'm tagging this
as "wontfix" for now.

Thanks,

/mjt