[systemd-devel] [PATCH] build: lookup for the "mount" binary

[Dave Reisner]

On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 03:27:06PM -0300, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
> El mié 30 oct 2013 15:18:48 CLST, Tom Gundersen escribió:
> > On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Cristian Rodríguez
> > <crrodriguez at opensuse.org> wrote:
> >> Real executable might be in /usr and not in /bin
> >
> > I'm not against the patch, but the justification seems lacking... Does
> > anyone actually do this? I.e., have a mount that is not symlinked to
> > by /bin/mount?
> 
> I am not aware of anyone not having a symlink to /bin/mount.. however, 
> when creating an initrd with dracut the symlink is not included (only 
> the real binary is at /usr/bin/mount) and mounting stuff breaks.

I think Tom meant that /bin would be a symlink to /usr/bin, which
implicitly links /bin/mount to /usr/bin/mount.

> It is either this patch or I should send a patch to dracut instead :-)

If Dracut doesn't create the above symlink, it really needs to. Or, it
needs to install mount in the "right" place. I'm curious why you'd be
the first person to report such a failure.

> In any case, from my perspective this is the right thing to do anyway.
> 
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