retitle 628458 debian-reference: please encourage use of bind mounts instead of symlinks severity 628458 minor reassign 628458 debian-reference 2.46 quit
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 01:06:23PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Sun, 29 May 2011, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> 4. Encourage sysadmins to use bind mounts instead of symlinks for >> this purpose. >> >> All are incomplete or have downsides. (1) prevents the sysadmin from >> removing /opt, as you mentioned. (2) complicates the package creation >> procedure, so much so that I'm not sure whether it would work. >> (3) would prevent directories first created in maintainer scripts and >> later incorporated into the files list from being cleaned up on >> removal. (4) has no clear downside --- what would be a good document >> to advertise this in? > > I don't know. Would it help if I add a question to base-files FAQ? No, I don't think so. Reassigning to debian-reference (and the original report [1] can be used to track more fundamental fixes). Osamu, the idea of this request is to document Bug#628458 (if the sysadmin replaces a directory like /opt with a symlink, dpkg removes it after the last package using it is removed) and to encourage use of bind mounts in section 9.3 "Data storage tips" to avoid this and similar complications. Thanks for your thoughtfulness. [1] http://bugs.debian.org/628458 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
