Needs automount support

[pakraticus]

Binary package hint: schroot

Feature request with code for implementation of feature.

Background.
Automount doesn't work properly with bind mounts.
Starting automount within a schroot does not work as expected.
As automount map scripts may be updating iptables, running the actual automount under a schroot may be a poor idea anyways.
And other users have struggled to get automount to work within schroot, I wrote a setup.d to handle automount with a schroot.
Attached is a script that handles those needs.
Script handles setup-start and setup-stop for persistant named schroots. Naming conventions may need to be tidied up. Documentation needs to be provided.

Thanks,
Chris Dukes

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: schroot 1.4.7-1ubuntu0.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-28.49-server 2.6.35.11
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-28-server x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Mar 28 13:50:51 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: schroot

[pakraticus (pakraticus)]

Chroot remains the least painful way for me to use i386 debs on an amd64 system.
Here is 21automount tidied up for natty. It should just automagically work for autofs users.
Hopefully it doesn't blow things up for non-autofs users.

[Roger Leigh (rleigh)]

Note that we will happily include additional setup scripts in schroot. However, since I look at the Ubuntu bug tracker about once every 2 years, it's much better to just send them to us directly, or file a bug in the Debian BTS!

Note that the 1.5.x (and shortly forthcoming 1.6.0) releases add the ability to run regular /etc/init.d services in the script, by starting and stopping them when you create and end a session. So it's possible to use the regular packaged services. It also adds support for user-defined configuration keys, so the automount configuration could be put directly into your schroot.conf chroot definition.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.