Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 11:59 -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote:
That said, is it "normal" and "proper" (etc) for a %post script to make
references to stuff in /mnt/source/? For instance, let's say I have a
mini-tar overlay of files I want to explode into the new root that's being built
(since everything is prefixed in the tarchive by ./inst-helper/ anyway)... is:
That or downloading them to /tmp (or similar) in %post via HTTP or the
like. Either is reasonable. I tend to do the downloading as it's more
flexible for non-NFS installs.
Well, I'm pulling my hair out. Sigh.
Just tried:
%post --nochroot
(cd /mnt/sysimage ; gunzip -c | tar xf -) < /mnt/source/root-overlay.tgz
and it failed. It seems that /mnt/source has been *unmounted* by the time
%post gets run. Which makes no sense to me.
When is /mnt/source unmounted?
-Philip
