On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 11:48:35AM +0200, Just a friendly Jedi Knight wrote: > On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 02:27:16AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > as for making apt to remount rw before and ro after upgrading put this > > > > > > DPkg::Pre-Invoke {"mount -o remount,rw /usr";}; > > > DPkg::Post-Invoke {"mount -o remount,ro /usr";}; > > > DPkg::RunDirectory "/"; > > > > what does that RunDirectory "/"; do? > From what i remeber it forces daemons that are restarted during to use / as > current dir (and thus they don't block one from remounting filesystem) hmm, i have never had any such problems with daemons. the only time i have problems with the remount ro is when a library or some other open/mmaped file is replaced, /usr then cannot be remounted readonly again until every process using that file (even if it only had it open readonly) has terminated. > > > > BTW: your Mail-Followup-To header is broken, there is no such user > > `jedi' on this machine ;-) > hmm must have screwed something up in mutt ... or maybe someplace else > oh, boy! its because you have not told mutt your canonical email address, you just let the MTA canonicalize it for you. normally that is fine but your MTA does not know to fix your Mail-Followup-To header, thus you must tell mutt what your cononical address is. you can do that like so: ## from header set use_from set from=jedi@plukwa.net in your ~/.muttrc. that should fix it. or if you don't want to be CCed change lists debian-powerpc to subscribe debian-powerpc . -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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