Bug 92025

Summary:	Disable fstab-sync in hal
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Nathaniel McCallum (RETIRED) <npmccallum>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Project Gentopia <gentopia>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	askwar, ladanyi
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	91928, 113724

Description Nathaniel McCallum (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-05-09 10:18:40 UTC

we need to disable fstab-sync in hal, or at least put it on a USE flag

Comment 1 Nathaniel McCallum (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-05-09 10:50:44 UTC

I know you mentioned a USE flag for fstab-sync in the previous bug.  However, I'd really prefer not to support fstab-sync.  Its a dirty hack with uncontrollable policy and creates many more security risks (via tough administration) than pmount.  If we choose not to support fstab-sync, its a one line change in the ebuild.

Comment 2 Patrick Fehr 2005-07-31 06:38:15 UTC

and when actually will this happen eventually? pmount is used in every other 
major distribution, why still not under gentoo-portage?

Comment 3 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-07-31 13:17:17 UTC

Patrick, rude comments onto bugs won't make them happen quicker. It's a work in
progress. We're going to transition the changes most likely with the next Gnome
release.

Comment 4 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-08-18 00:33:35 UTC

This has been removed in the 0.5.x series of HAL, which is still p.masked.

Also removing foser's CC since he's on the utopia list.

Comment 5 Alexander Skwar 2005-11-22 12:12:12 UTC

Could we please re-enable fstab-sync? It worked a *LOT* better than pmount;
actually, pmount doesn't seem to work at all....