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friendly-recovery package

  1. Bug #575469
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 575469

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Stéphane Graber (stgraber) wrote : Re: recovery mode mounts filesystems read-write rather than read-only

Working on implementing option 2, I noticed that friendly-recovery depends on whiptail which is in /usr/bin.
We're not going to be moving whiptail and libnewt out of /usr this cycle but it's definitely something that should happen for next cycle (opening bug tasks for these two).

For now, friendly-recovery itself will be in /lib and will simply drop to a root shell if /urs/bin/whiptail can't be accessed.

Whenever we move whiptail to /bin we should also make sure nothing currently refers to it with an hardcoded path as friendly-recovery used to do.