Re: ifupdown's changelog: Try to remove old /etc/network/run even if it's a symlink
On Tue, 04 Sep 2012 18:09:59 +0300, Regid Ichira wrote:
> $ zgrep 'Try to remove' /usr/share/doc/ifupdown/changelog.gz
> - Try to remove old /etc/network/run even if it's a symlink.
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* Clean up after /run migration (Closes: #673057):
- Remove old /etc/network/run.dpkg-old symlink.
- Try to remove old /etc/network/run even if it's a symlink.
Ah, okay, that explains better :-)
> $ ls -l /etc/network/run
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 May 20 20:59 /etc/network/run -> /run/network
I also have it...
> Can I remove /etc/network/run manually? Just /etc/network/run. Not
> /run/network.
Why you want to do that? Are you facing any problem?
> My understanding is that the removal attempt is here:
(...)
> I don't have /etc/network/run.dpkg-old. I understand that the writer
> of that code fragment was cautious about various linkage methods. I
> tried to follow the logic of the code, but failed. For example, why is
> there an explicit
>
> ln -s /run/network /etc/network/run
>
> ?
Most sure I'm missing something but that's the final goal of the routine:
# Migrate /etc/network/run to /run/network
Do you find something wrong? My first thought is that this is part of the
/run transition¹ :-?
http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/RunDirectory
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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