Bug#282344: apt-cdrom: please change default CD-ROM mountpoint
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 10:27:28AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> [2004.12.28.0350 +0100]:
> > Until a symlink is provided for backward compatibility (/media/cdrom ->
> > /cdrom), this would break working systems.
>
> ... this does not prevent you from changing to use /media/cdrom.
> I purposely removed the /cdrom symlink to find problematic packages
> which still use it.
There are a large number of installed systems which use /cdrom in
/etc/fstab. Changing apt-cdrom's default mount point to /media/cdrom would
break apt-cdrom on those systems, unless there is some process to convert
them on upgrade.
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- mdz
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