I'm redirecting this to #693398 since I don't want to spam the unblock request bug.
On 16.11.2012 11:37, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 02:11:13AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: >> >> As already mentioned on IRC: checkroot-bootclean is kinda odd. >> It cleans up /run/, /run/lock *after* the tmpfs has been mounted, so >> this cleanup looks entirely pointless. > > The main point of this script was to clean /tmp prior to mounting a > tmpfs, as well as /lib/init/rw (for historical reasons). It also > handles cleaning of /run and /run/lock; for platforms which don't > support a tmpfs, or where the admin has explicitly disabled tmpfs > mounting. /run-on-tmpfs is not really optional (at least not on kfreebsd and Linux). So this only seems to be relevant for Hurd. Especially cleaning up /run/lock seems completely pointless, since we already cleanup /run. Also, keep in mind that clean_all is run *three* times during boot. So for all non-Hurd users, which probably make up 100% of our user base (minus rounding errors), we run those clean up rules unnecessarily. While I could see the point of cleaning up /var/lock and /var/run, if you mount a tmpfs on those dirs, that is no longer what's happening with them being migrated to symlinks on upgrades. Cheers, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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