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[Paul Mahon <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>]

Some prople have very little room on their / partition. This will fail
if there is much data being put there at all. I would suggest making
this optional with a very clear message.

On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 22:56, Casey Harkins wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Mads Laursen wrote:
> > > NEEDS="+local_fs" will work as long as /usr can be mounted. Another 
> > > option
> > > suggested on the Yellow Dog Linux mailing list, was to copy -R
> > > /usr/share/zoneinfo onto / without /usr mounted. This way the symlink 
> > > will
> > > work with or without /usr mounted. I don't see how this could be done
> > > automatically from within the glibc spell safely though.
> >
> > How about something like:
> >
> >   mkdir -p SOME_DIR/root
> >   mount --bind / SOME_DIR/root
> >   if ! [ -d SOME_DIR/root/usr/share/zoneinfo ]; then
> >     mkdir -p SOME_DIR/root/usr/share/zoneinfo
> >     cp -rv /usr/share/zoneinfo/* SOME_DIR/root/usr/share/zoneinfo/
> >   fi
> >   umount SOME_DIR/root
> >
> > AFAIK mount --bind binds the actual directory tree pointed to, without
> > regard for anything mounted ontop of it.
> 
> Just checked, that will work perfectly. Anyone see any reason not to do
> this? If not, I'll bug it with this fix.
> 
> -casey
> 
> 
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