Re: Fwd: Bug#344758: init.d script should create /var/run/dirmngr

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>]

On Wed, 04 Jan 2006, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> [Peter Eisentraut]
> > What do you think about this request?  It seems reasonable, but I

[...]
> This issue was mentioned in the /run discussion we just had on this
> list.  I'm in favor of forcing all init scripts to mkdir -p

<initscripts co-maintainer hat on>

Do it.  We are *heavly* considering support for ephemeral /var/run (which is
orthogonal to /run or anything else in that topic), so you might as well do
it now and make your user happy.  A lot of other packages already support
ephemeral /var/run.

BUT, if you do, don't ship /var/run inside the deb.

> /var/run/whatever-they-will-need; it's not like this is hard to do.
> mkdir -p even handles "directory already exists" sanely (i.e., silently
> and without error).

Do remember to bang out gracefully with an error if you need to chown and
chmod that directory (e.g. for a daemon that uses a system user created in
postinst), and that fails for some reason.

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  Henrique Holschuh