On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 20:48:44 +0000
David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk> wrote:

> I've inverted the sense of that test...
Well. The test is redundant. You don't need fsck_lfs(8) (most likely),
so it can be removed from the instalation system and thus from the test.
If mount_lfs(8) or newfs_lfs(8) are missing on the instalation system
you can't install on LFS anyway.

> It might be needed to stop sysinst trying to mount the partitions
> - but I've not really looked at that part of sysinst for a while.
Not mounting LFS would be OK if the _target_ system doesn't contain the
needed executables. But in that case the test should test the _target_
system, not the instalation system. The test, if performed at all,
should test for lfs_cleanerd(8) in addition and it must be ensured that
the instaled kernel has "file-system LFS" enabled. "file-system LFS" is
in GENERIC and all LFS user land tools are part of base.tgz. So they are
allways there. Therefore I don't see any rationale for a test like this.
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       Jochen

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