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Date:      Mon, 30 Oct 2000 11:28:25 -0500
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com>
To:        Yukihiro Nakai <nakai@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        sada@bsdclub.org, marcel@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ports/22310: Update port: x11-wm/icewm-i18n
Message-ID:  <39FDA1A9.117AF201@cup.hp.com>
References:  <200010291631.BAA23255@home.bsdclub.org> <39FCE142.C19F368E@cup.hp.com> <200010300906.SAA24240@ns.tokyo.redhat.com>

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Yukihiro Nakai wrote:
> 
> There is no such file '/etc/mnttab' in a linux box. (Red Hat Linux 7J). ??

I know of other applications that need mnttab. I believe that mnttab is
written by the mount family of tools. I don't keep up with Linux enough
to know the hairy details. I'm 100% sure it's not a FreeBSD "thingy" :-)

Maybe the use of /etc/mnttab is a fallback method when some other method
fails (ie backward compatibility). If this is the case, we need to start
looking at the Linuxulator (missing syscall)...

> > >
> > > Looks ports/emulators/linux_base need /etc/mnttab on my 4.1.1 box.
> > > Is there anything to do with it ?
> > >
> > > # rpm -U --ignoreos --root /compat/linux --dbpath /var/lib/rpm  --nodeps --replacepkgs setup-2.
> > > 0.5-1.noarch.rpm
> > > failed to open /etc/mnttab: No such file or directory
> > > # touch /etc/mnttab
> > > # rpm -U --ignoreos --root /compat/linux --dbpath /var/lib/rpm  --nodeps --replacepkgs setup-2.
> > > 0.5-1.noarch.rpm
> > > <Looks OK>
> >
> > Hmmm... This is new. I think the updated rpm needs mnttab and since
> > linux_base has ``--root /compat/linux'', rpm expects it in /compat/linux
> > (which I think is strange, so I may be wrong here).
> >
> > Can you file a PR?

-- 
Marcel Moolenaar
  mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org
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