Re: Perhaps programs should create the subdirectories they use for their temporary files

2009-04-04 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 11:00:54AM +0200, Guus Sliepen wrote: > I maintain a lot of systems that run on CompactFlash cards of a few GB, but > also have 1 or 2 GB of RAM. I mount a tmpfs over /var/cache/apt/archives, so I > can upgrade the system without using a large amount of space on flash, and t

Re: Perhaps programs should create the subdirectories they use for their temporary files

2009-04-04 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 11:00 +0200, Guus Sliepen wrote: > The problem is that some programs (apt-get, PolicyKit, etc.) store temporary > files in /var/run or /var/cache in their own subdirectories, but expect > something else to create these directories for them. I think we should require > these pr

Re: Perhaps programs should create the subdirectories they use for their temporary files

2009-04-04 Thread Kel Modderman
On Saturday 04 April 2009 19:00:54 Guus Sliepen wrote: > On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 01:54:07AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > > > > contact a running daemon. Could you explain what policykit uses /var/run > > > for, and educate me a bit on why D-Bus services have to put things in > > > /var/run but d