Hello, It has been pointed out to me in http://bugs.debian.org/387699 that syvinit is going to move /var/run to a tmpfs to solve a long-standing issue, having some place to store state information before partitions are checked and mounted. (I do not know how they are going to handle the fact that /var/run is needed before /var is mounted, mount --move requires kernel 2.6 afaict.)
This is nice, but is going to break packages that either ship a subdirectory of /var/run in the deb or generate it once in postinst and rely on its existence afterwards. Contents*gz and therefore packages.d.o do not list (empty) directories but only files, so I cannot yet say how many packages this is actually going to break, I have listed those I found on my system in the bug-report noted above. The whole thing is grey territory in FHS, but still I tend to think that sysvinit should somehow preserve the (empty) directory structure of /var/run through reboots. Either by using some find+tar magic after mounting /usr or by keeping /var/run a real directory and keep the pre-mount stuff in /var/run/pre-mount. Other thoughts? cu andreas -- The 'Galactic Cleaning' policy undertaken by Emperor Zhark is a personal vision of the emperor's, and its inclusion in this work does not constitute tacit approval by the author or the publisher for any such projects, howsoever undertaken. (c) Jasper Ffforde -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
