exo-mount ignores HAL volume mount options 'sync' and 'noatime'

Wouldn't it be better to send this patch upstream? It's not really xubuntu specific.

It is going upstream but the patch he provided is against our patched version of exo.

I agree with Gauvain. The issue is bigger, since exo completely ignores hal mount options (volume.policy.mount_option.*), as reported on http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2891 (debian/patches/xubuntu-default-mount-options.patch is only an xubuntu-specific hack which can't be sent upstream…).

Problem with submitting straight upstream is that this patches ontop of the Xubuntu default-mount-options.patch

If I submit upstream I need to either include the default-mount-options code in the upstream submission, or strip it and cause a conflict with the downstream patch.

please advise.

There are already patches proposed upstream, so adding one will probably not help.

I would also add that the ro (read-only) option should also be supported.

The modified exo-mount patch, adding suport for 'ro', is attached.

( I prefer ro mount for flash drives. It would be nice if thunar had a "remount read-write" menu option)

The incoming exo release in lucid will have support for custom mount options (in /etc/xdg/xfce4/mount.rc). I don't know yet if the default config is ok (that's why I opened a task for xubuntu-default-settings), but anyway, the support is here.

This bug was fixed in the package exo - 0.3.105-3ubuntu1

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exo (0.3.105-3ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian testing, remaining Ubuntu changes:
    - debian/rules: removed mangling of helpers.rc
    - debian/control: update Vcs-* fields
    - debian/patches:
      + xubuntu-update-helpers.patch: patched libexo's firefox helper desktop
        file to use firefox-3.5 icon instead of firefox icon (LP: #417354)
      + xubuntu-expire-notifications.patch: don't use non-expiring
        notifications since we use notify-osd by default (LP: #423936)
      + series: refreshed.

  * Drop gtk doc changes, unneeded delta:
    - drop --enable-gtk-doc switch from configure
    - drop build-dep on gtk-doc-tools.

  * debian/patches: renamed 04_update_helpers.patch to
    xubuntu-update-helpers.patch as it is xubuntu-specific.

  * Bugs fixed:
    - "exo-mount ignores HAL volume mount options 'sync' and 'noatime'"
      (LP: #238702)

exo (0.3.105-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/control:
    - add an exo-utils-dbg package containing debug symbols for the exo-utils
      binaries.
  * debian/rules:
    - use variables for library name, soversion and version.

exo (0.3.105-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/control:
    - add build-dep on quilt
  * debian/rules:
    - call {,un}patch targets when needed, include quilt rules.
  * debian/patches:
    - 01_mount-async added, don't mount all volumes with sync.

exo (0.3.105-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
  * add a new libexo-common packages containing mount options file,
    documentation, helper files.
  * debian/rules:
    - simplify rules file.
  * debian/patches:
    - 01_fix-exo-csource-manpage dropped, upstream manpage fixed.
    - 02_fix-exo-open-manpage as well.
  * debian/control:
    - drop quilt build-dep.
 -- Lionel Le Folgoc <email address hidden> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:45:15 +0100

Ok, I just tested, and I'll have to ship a mount.rc file in xubuntu-default-settings to pass utf8=true at least for vfat (maybe for iso9960 too...).

This bug was fixed in the package xubuntu-default-settings - 0.68

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xubuntu-default-settings (0.68) lucid; urgency=low

  * Refreshed translations.
  * etc/xdg/xubuntu/xfce4:
    - helpers.rc: set default applications
    - mount.rc: set default mount options. LP: #238702
 -- Lionel Le Folgoc <email address hidden> Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:55:45 +0100