Comment 12 for bug 7866

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 16:40:13 -0800
From: Matt Zimmerman <email address hidden>
To: martin f krafft <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#282344: apt-cdrom: please change default CD-ROM mountpoint

On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 01:22:54AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:

> also sprach Matt Zimmerman <email address hidden> [2004.12.28.1837 +0100]:
> > There are a large number of installed systems which use /cdrom in
> > /etc/fstab. Changing apt-cdrom's default mount point to
> > /media/cdrom would break apt-cdrom on those systems, unless there
> > is some process to convert them on upgrade.
>
> Can apt-cdrom check if /media/cdrom exists, and use /cdrom
> otherwise?

Not exactly; it would need to parse /etc/fstab to know which one to use.

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 - mdz