Comment 10 for bug 7866

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Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 18:20:00 -0200
From: Otavio Salvador <email address hidden>
To: Matt Zimmerman <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>, martin f krafft <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#282344: apt-cdrom: please change default CD-ROM mountpoint

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|| On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 09:37:25 -0800
|| Matt Zimmerman <email address hidden> wrote:

mz> On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 10:27:28AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
>> also sprach Matt Zimmerman <email address hidden> [2004.12.28.0350 +0100]:
>> > Until a symlink is provided for backward compatibility (/media/cdrom ->
>> > /cdrom), this would break working systems.
>>
>> ... this does not prevent you from changing to use /media/cdrom.
>> I purposely removed the /cdrom symlink to find problematic packages
>> which still use it.

mz> There are a large number of installed systems which use /cdrom in
mz> /etc/fstab. Changing apt-cdrom's default mount point to /media/cdrom would
mz> break apt-cdrom on those systems, unless there is some process to convert
mz> them on upgrade.

But this kinda of upgrade process probably broke the policy since you
will need change /etc/fstab directly.

Another option is provide a symbolic link to old place and then
providing backward compatibility.

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