Re: RFH: testing util-linux/experimental
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 3:33 AM, Andreas Henriksson wrote:
> One of the notes there includes mentioning that losetup has completely
> dropped support for encryption. This also means that the Debian-specific
> patch to extend this functionality has been dropped[HASHPATCH]. This
> mean that the mount options "encryption", "nohashpass", "keybits", etc
> are no longer available for loop mounts. Please make sure that you are
> not using any of this, as for example having invalid settings in
> /etc/fstab could potentially lead to an unbootable system (as it seems
> common that people do not add "nofail" to their fstabs where
> appropriate).
Would it be a good idea to check for that situation in preinst and
fail the upgrade when a problem is detected?
--
bye,
pabs
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