On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 02:12:32PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Roger Leigh <rle...@codelibre.net> (25/05/2012): > > We previously didn't enable this for upgrades primarily because it > > wasn't possible to. It wasn't possible to upgrade /etc/default/rcS. > > Also, quite a few people complained about the semantics of RAM* in > > rcS changing since it used to refer to /var/* rather than the new > > locations (mainly from RAMRUN and RAMLOCK). To address these concerns, > > all the RAM* settings were moved to /etc/default/tmpfs, putting all > > the tmpfs-related settings in a single place. However, this does > > result in tmpfs being enabled on upgrade. > > > > Whether the default is set to enabled or disabled, we now have a single > > place to configure it, which will take effect for upgrades or new > > installs. Having a consistent default for both upgrades and new > > installs is, I think, generally desirable, irrespective of what that > > default ends up being. > > Changing the default on upgrades in *not* acceptable.
We should probably only have done that for RAMLOCK. It's definitely possible to continue to look in rcS for RAMSHM and RAMTMP. I'll look at it on Monday. -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `- GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC 4083 E800 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
