setup drops mount?

[Earnie Boyd]

--- DJ Delorie <dj@delorie.com> wrote:
> 
> > Should we now modify this to conditionally remove these based on whether
> the
> > installation is into a new root directory?  If I'm updating I would be very
> > upset to learn that my now mounted /bin directory had been removed.  I have
> it
> > mounted per CGF's suggestion for cygexec bit switch.
> 
> Setup doesn't know about existing mount points.  If you want to teach
> it to respect existing mount points and symbolic links, then perhaps
> we can safely leave existing mounts alone.
> 

No, but it would know if it had to create a new root directory or even a new
/etc/setup directory or even a new /etc/setup/installed.db file.  The point is,
if this is an update then the mount points are already set and there is no need
to unmount and remount.

Cheers,

=====
Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com

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