Bug#737759: hurd: Add init.d script to create /var/run/mtab

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Petter Reinholdtsen, le Thu 06 Feb 2014 12:58:13 +0100, a écrit :
> [Samuel Thibault]
> > Well, I'm not sure we want to add an init script just for this while
> > simply building coreutils will fix the issue (and we have to get it
> > built at some point anyway).  When I mentioned on IRC that it could
> > be brownpaperbag-fixed, I was thinking about just a one-liner in
> > some existing init script.
> 
> Is it enough fixing coreutils?  The comment in /etc/hurd/rc indicate
> that e2fsck also need a rebuild,

e2fsck already been rebuilt against the fixed libc(2.17-92): version
1.42.9-1. So dropping the creation of the file could be done along
Break:-ing previous versions of e2fsprogs indeed.

> and the fact that the code was there
> make me believe that tools on hurd are going to expect /var/run/mtab
> instead of /etc/mtab.

No, they aren't.

> /var/run/mtab and /run/mtab is in my opinion is
> a better location for the file, so starting from scratch I would have
> wanted Linux to keep it there too. :)

Well, perhaps, I don't really have an opinion on this, but I believe we
don't want try to make Debian changes in hurd first.

Samuel