Bug#606826: upgrade-reports: release notes should warn about vital NFS mounts during upgrade

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 11:15:27AM +0100, Alain Baeckeroot wrote:
> 
> Le 12/12/2010 à 01:50, Witold Baryluk a écrit :
> > 
> > Package: upgrade-reports
> > Severity: normal
> > Tags: squeeze
> > 
> > Hi.
> > 
> > Basically I had /var/cache/apt, linked to /home/root/apt, and /home was NFS
> > mount.
> > 
> 
> It is not a good idea to link /var/x to /home/y :
> 
> * /var is (more or less) mandatory for booting, and get mounted early
> * /usr should not be needed to boot (and can be monted later)
> * /home is not needed at all to boot, and can come late 

Your advice does not seems relevant to this bug report. Certainly /var/cache/apt
is not used at boot time.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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