Re: [Libguestfs] [PATCH 1/3] febootstrap/helper/init: make sure /proc is mounted into chroot.
* Richard W.M. Jones:
I would prefer either that we push all this stuff into
libguestfs's
init script, or (better) that we fix the Debian packages themselves so
that any directories, device files etc that they need are listed in
the packages already and not in separate scripts. (Fedora is just as
culpable about this).
Since not many people seem to be involved and interested in hacking on
initrd systems, I think that fixing this in the distributions won't
exactly be a short-term effort.
A few short looks at dracut and mkinitcpio (Arch Linux) show that their
/init scripts perform essentially the same filesystem mount operations
as the /init script from Debian's initramfs-tools described earlier. (I
am not surprised.) It should be easy to implement this in a few mount(2)
calls as part of febootstrap's /init. One could even use #ifdefs to cope
with slightly different behavior across distributions.
I think febootstrap would be more useful when used for other purposes
than building a libguestfs appliance. And there is one less possibly
distribution-specific detail that needs to be coded into libguestfs.
-Hilko