Hi! On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 22:02:57 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > On 08.10.2012 20:15, Michael Gilbert wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 6:33 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > >> "Packages must not include files or directories under /run, > >> or under the older /var/run and /var/lock paths." > > > > The thing is that it really does no harm if a package actually does > > this; although it is pretty pointless since those files will be gone > > I actually find it pretty handy if I can use dpkg -S to find out which > package a particular directory belongs to. > So shipping the directory in the package does have some value (at least > for me).
That applies as well to any path generated at maintainer script or run time by the package (like state, cache, log files, etc), but I don't think it's currently a good idea for these to belong in the dpkg database, as either the files' md5sums might change over time, or the paths might appear and disappear if they are on a ramfs, or worse might cause security issues if they are world writable (like /var/lock, as Jakub has pointed out). > aba rightfully pointed out, that having a mechanism in dpkg which allows > one to register such a directory in the dpkg database dynamically, might > be an even better approach. > > Such a mechanism could not only be used to register such volatile > files/directories in (/var)/run or /lock but files that are generated by > the maintainer scripts Sure, and that's been on the dpkg TODO list for a while, but it needs first for its database to be extended to track additional metadata. I was planning on working on this for 1.17.x anyway. > like ucf config files This will be covered instead by extending the dpkg conffile support to allow to register external configuration files. > or even ressources like system users and groups. I'm not entirely sure what you mean with this though, maybe something like #685734? thanks, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121008205332.ga13...@gaara.hadrons.org
